Italy - Presentation of the collection called "Salesian Texts and Contexts"
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16 June 2025
Italy - Presentation of the collection called "Salesian Texts and Contexts"

(ANS - Rome) - On Wednesday 11 June 2025, the official presentation was held at the Pontifical Salesian University of a collection entitled Salesian Texts and Contexts, a volume created as a tribute to Prof. Aldo Giraudo, a leading figure in the study of Salesian spirituality and history, who concluded his teaching career at the University this year. The event was attentively and warmly attended, bringing together colleagues, students and friends of the professor for an afternoon of shared reflection on the scientific and educational contribution of a scholar who has been able to combine academic rigour and educational passion.

During the meeting, speeches by Fr Michal Vojtáš, Fr Giuseppe Biancardi, Eliane Anschau Petri, Fr Silvio Roggia, General Councillor for Formation, and Fr Jesús Manuel García highlighted the methodological value of Fr Giraudo's approach, based on an integrated reading of the sources and their contexts. The collected essays, constructed according to this paradigm and including pedagogy, catechesis and Salesian spirituality, represent a significant contribution to nurturing dynamic and current research on Salesianity. The volume, also available online from LAS, is thus not only a tribute to the professor, but also a living resource for scholars and educators.

Promoter of the initiative, in collaboration with the Institute of Spirituality of the UPS, was the Centro Studi Don Bosco (Don Bosco Study Centre), which now makes available on its website the integral videos of the speeches, offering a further opportunity to explore the themes and contents that emerged during the event.

The book is available as: Testi e contesti salesiani. Miscellanea in onore del prof. Aldo Giraudo, LAS, Roma 2025, 300p.

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