(ANS – Rome) –As we approach the feast of St John Bosco in this Bicentennial year of his most famous dream at nine years of age, for the readers of ANS we would like to propose a trio of dreams among the best known, most significant and most "prophetic" for the Congregation and the whole Church. We begin today with the one that went down in history as "The Dream of the Two Columns" (Biographical Memoirs VII, 169-171), whose content, so truly ecclesial, is often cited and recalled in many different places and circumstances, even outside the Salesian world.

(ANS – Rome) – Today closes the phase dedicated to missionary dreams as part of the journey through the Dreams of Don Bosco, in view of his feast and in the year of the Bicentenary of the Dream at Nine Years of Age. Today we recall the last missionary dream (Biographical Memoirs XVIII, 50-52), that Don Bosco had in Spain, in Barcelona on the night of 9-10 April 1886 and when he recounted it for the first time, among others to Fr Rua, his voice broke with sobs. Almost as if to complete the vision of the previous missionary dream, he still saw many lands then unexplored for his Salesians, many young people in need of their help and the Little Shepherdess who often appeared in his dreams, reminding him of that first vision of 1824.

(ANS – Rome) – Towards the end of his life Don Bosco continued to have visions and dreams concerning the development of his Work. Thus, in 1885, the chronicles report his fourth missionary dream, in which he glimpsed the future of the Salesian presence in Africa, in Australia and Oceania, and in China (Biographical Memoirs, XVII, 594-597). We offer it to you to rediscover it together in this journey among Don Bosco’s Dreams, in view of his feast day and in the year of the Bicentenary of the Dream at Nine Years of Age.

(ANS– Rome) – After recalling some of Don Bosco's famous dreams with a clearly educational and pedagogical value, today begins the mini-cycle of three events dedicated to rediscovering the "missionary" dreams of the holy founder of the Salesian Congregation. Given the development of the Society he founded, the countless works started and carried out with the collaboration of many other men and women religious and lay people of the Salesian Family, and the precision of many details reported about countries and situations that Don Bosco never visited in person, these dreams are among the most fascinating visions that he has reported. Let's start, of course, with the first, concerning the first land of mission of the Salesians: Patagonia (Biographical Memoirs X, 53-55).

(ANS – Rome) – The feast of St. John Bosco, Father and Teacher of Young People, is a feast day that is deeply felt and widely participated in all over the world. Globally, there will be numerous broadcasters and newspapers that will include special items in their columns dedicated to remembering Don Bosco and talking about those who carry out his mission today. On Italian television networks, for example, two appointments are already scheduled that will involve Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major of the Salesians,  the Co-spokesman of the Salesian Congregation, Fr. Giuseppe Costa, and the General Councillor for Salesian Youth Ministry, Fr Miguel Ángel García Morcuende.

(ANS – Rome) – A bumpy and tiring path, a lot of commitment, a lot of zeal, many difficulties, but also heavenly music and splendid visions: all this can be found in Don Bosco's third dream that we are rediscovering in view of his liturgical feast and in this Bicentennial year of his most famous dream at nine years of age. Today the dream known as “the ten hills” is presented (Biographical Memoirs VII, 466-471). In this account, Don Bosco offers his young people various important teachings: the importance of preserving innocence and following the teachings of the Christian life; the value of perseverance and fidelity to the path undertaken; and finally the fundamental dimension of caring for each other along life's common path.