PHOTO ARCHIVES

Carmagnola, Italy - 1857 - On an afternoon in October 1857, Don Bosco met Michele Magone, a 13-year-old boy, poor and abandoned to himself, at the Carmagnola station. Following a brief conversation, Don Bosco easily managed to gain his trust. Michael was later welcomed to Valdocco, where Don Bosco helped him study and learn a trade. That meeting at the station changed young Michele's life forever.

Madrid, Spain - 1905 - On 12 October 1905, on the feast day of Our Lady of Pilar, the ancient church dedicated to Mary Help of Christians was inaugurated in the Atocha district of Madrid. About 50 years later, the latter was demolished and construction of the current Shrine began in the same location.

São Paulo, Brazil - 1886 - This is how the main building of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Lyceum and the chapel of the same name appeared in 1886, when they were handed over to the first Salesians who arrived in São Paulo. Today, the premises of the Lyceum house the MOSB, the Museum of the Salesian presence in Brazil, officially established in 2008. The Museum, which can also be visited through Google Arts & Culture, has a vast collection of historical images and photographs, which trace the history of the Salesian Congregation in Brazil.

Paraguay - A story in color

Asunción, Paraguay - 1896 - In 1894, Mons. Luigi Lasagna wrote to Don Rua, Don Bosco's first successor: “Paraguay is the land that many Salesian hearts desire”. It was a prophetic vision that began to be fulfilled two years later, in July 1896, when the first four Salesians who arrived in Paraguay took possession of the premises made available to them by the government. Welcomed with joy by the population and the authorities, the Salesians started the School of Arts and Crafts, thus getting closer to the young Paraguayans. 124 years later, the Salesian Family in Paraguay continues to be alive and dynamic and carries on the dream of Archbishop Lasagna.

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ANS - “Agenzia iNfo Salesiana” is a on-line almost daily publication, the communication agency of the Salesian Congregation enrolled in the Press Register of the Tibunal of Rome as n 153/2007.

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