Turin, Italy - September 2020 - From 3 August to 5 September, 14 Salesian pre-novices (9 Croatians, 4 Spaniards and 1 Portuguese) attended an Italian course so as to be well prepared at the beginning of their novitiate. During the course they lived with the Salesian community of Colle Don Bosco, visited Don Bosco's places and met Fr Juan Carlos Pérez Godoy, Councilor for the Mediterranean Region. The Salesian prenovices thanked God for the opportunity to get to know each other and visit Salesian places, praying that through the novitiate they could be "affective and effective Salesians" as the Rector Major said to them.