The Venerable Simon Srugi, salesian lay brother
BSOL Editor Simon Srugi was born on 15 April 1877 and grew up in a Greek-Melkite family...
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St Francis de Sales as a young student in Paris
P. Wirth MORAND In 1578 Francis de Sales was 11 years old. His father, wishing to make...
Canillitas. Child labour in the Dominican Republic (video)
Child labour is not a reality of the past, unfortunately. There are still around 160...
1954-2024: 70 years since the canonisation of Dominic Savio
The canonisation of Dominic Savio took place under the symbol of the Immaculate Conception. It...
Mary Help of Christians, from here to the world
Ángel Card. FERNÁNDEZ ARTIME Friends, readers of the Salesian Bulletin, my affectionate and warm greeting at this Easter...
St Joseph – a Father’s Heart (video)
St Joseph, the foster-father of Jesus, is a not a well known saint, Little has...
Wonders of the Mother of God invoked under the title of Mary Help of Christians (5/13)
St John Bosco (continuation from previous article) Chapter 7. Mary favours those who work for the faith; while...
Letter from Rector Major Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime
For the attention of my Salesian confreres, for the attention of our dear Salesian Family...
Don Bosco, politics and the social question
P. Natale CERRATO Did Don Bosco do politics? Yes, but not in the immediate sense of the word....
Patagonia, in the letters of the first missionaries
Arrival in Patagones and start of the work The first Salesians finally established their mission...
What are the requirements for entering the Salesian Society
In various parts of the world the time is approaching when some young people, attracted...
Servant of God Akash Bashir
On 25 February, we celebrated the feast of our Salesian protomartyrs, Bishop Aloysius Versiglia...
Prayers and invocations attracting indulgences
We sometimes here the question, what is the most powerful prayer?The wording is certainly wrong,...
The childhood of a future saint: Saint Francis de Sales
Francis was born on 21 August 1567 at the Château de Sales, in Thorens,...
Episcopal ordination of Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime
The Holy See announced in a press release issued by the Press Office on 5...
Preparations for the 150th Anniversary of the First Salesian Missionary Expedition (1875-2025)
P. Alfred MARAVILLA Next year, 2025, is the 150th anniversary of the departure of the first Salesian missionary...
1924-2024. 100 years supporting the Salesian Missions. Salesian Missions Institute
The Salesian Missions Institute was erected by decree through an initiative of the Rector Major,...
Holy Easter 2024!
Christ is RISEN! Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead… (cf. 2 Tit 2:8) A...
I am a Salesian and I am a Bororo
Diary of a happy and blessed missionary day Dear friends of the Salesian Bulletin,...
Fr José Luis Carreño Etxeandía. A salesian with the Heart of Jesus
Fr Jose Luis Carreño has been described by the historian, Joseph Thekkedath, as “the...
Wonders of the Mother of God invoked under the title of Mary Help of Christians (4/13)
(continuation from previous article) Chapter V. Devotion of the early Christians to the Blessed Virgin...
Missionary in Patagonia
Patagonia, the southern region of South America, divided between Argentina and Chile, is a territory...
Life of Saint Joseph, spouse of Mary Most Holy, earthly father of Jesus Christ (3/3)
(continuation from previous article) Chapter 20. Death of St Joseph. – His burial.Nunc dimittis servum...
Life of Saint Joseph, spouse of Mary Most Holy, earthly father of Jesus Christ (2/3)
(continuation from previous article) Chapter 9. The Circumcision.Et vocavit nomen eius Iesum. (And he named...
Salesians in Tarnowskie Góry
There is a perhaps unique place in Poland where Salesians care for young people from...
Life of Saint Joseph, spouse of Mary Most Holy, earthly father of Jesus Christ (1/3)
Saint Joseph is patron of the Church and also co-patron of the Salesian Congregation. From...
Do holy water, blessings, and other sacramentals still have value?
We are witnessing today an indifference or contempt for sacramentals. Blessings on people, water, religious...
International Congress of Mary Help of Christians
It has been a tradition since the centenary of Don Bosco’s death in 1988, that...
Don Bosco’s dream is more alive than ever
Faced with everything that I am seeing in the Salesian world, I feel I can...
The pleasure of loving God like St Francis de Sales
In his famous Treatise on the Love of God, St Francis de Sales wanted...
Wonders of the Mother of God invoked under the title of Mary Help of Christians (3/13)
(continuation from previous article) Chapter III. Mary manifests her zeal and power with her son...
Salesian Protomartyrs: Aloysius (Louis) Versiglia and Callistus Caravario
Louis and Callistus: the same missionary vocation for the salvation of souls, but a different...
Being lovable like Don Bosco (2/2)
Fr Bruno FERRERO (continuation from previous article) 5) Being authenticIn the digital age, authentic people are very important....
The prophecies of Don Bosco and the kings of Italy
“The family of those who steal from God does not reach the fourth generation.” The...
Alberto Marvelli, the Christian that even the Communists liked
Alberto Marvelli (1918-1946), a young man formed in the Salesian oratory in Rimini, lived his...
“I want to be useful to my people”. Lessons of life in missionary Africa
In 1995, 28 years ago, I left my beloved Argentina for missionary Africa with the...
Being lovable like Don Bosco (1/2)
Being lovable is a human quality that is cultivated, accepting the effort that it so...
Message at the end of the 42nd Salesian Spirituality Days
To my dearest Family My dearest sons and daughters, The dream that makes you dream....
The “misunderstood” God of St Francis de Sales
A curious episode In the life of Francis de Sales, a young student in Paris,...
Giuseppe Buzzetti, from migrant to first Salesian brother
Teresio BOSCO He was one of the many young migrants in 19th century Turin. He had the...
And the star stopped over a wheelchair
Encounters on Epiphany with wonderful people with a good heart and a radiant faith Dear...
Don Bosco’s last will and testament
With a will, as we know, someone disposes of their belongings for the time...
The dream at 9 years of age. Genesis of a vocation
The 9-year-old’s dream presented in ten points, the genesis of a heavenly vocation, confirmed by...
Don Bosco’s nine-year dream. Theological – spiritual nuclei
A commentary on the theological-spiritual themes present in the nine-year dream could have such...
Wonders of the Mother of God invoked under the title of Mary Help of Christians (2/13)
(continuation from previous article) Chapter II. Mary shown to be the help of Christians by...
St Francis de Sales. Complete works and concordances
St Francis de Sales was considered a founder of a new school of spirituality, named...
Laura Vicuña: a daughter who “begets” her mother
Prof. Lodovica Maria ZANET Stories of wounded families We are used to imagining the family as a harmonious reality,...
Strenna 2024. “The dream that makes you dream”
A heart that transforms “wolves” into “lambs” During my service as Rector Major I have...
Don Bosco and ecumenical dialogue
Ecumenism is a movement that arose at the beginning of the 20th century among...
Don Bosco and animals
Did Don Bosco love animals? Are they present in his life? And what relationship did...
Luigi Variara the Founder who was himself ‘founded’
Fr Pierluigi CAMERONI ‘Founded’ in a glance that marked a lifetime Louis Variara was born on 15 January...
The Don Bosco of Naples. The oratory of a thousand trades
The origin of the Salesian presence in Naples goes back to Don Bosco himself;...
Blessed Titus Zeman, martyr for vocations
A man destined for elimination Titus Zeman was born in Vajnory, near Bratislava (in Slovakia),...
A year of dreams from above
Dear friends: we are on the threshold of a new year, 2024, a very special...
Wonders of the Mother of God invoked under the title of Mary Help of Christians (1/13)
In 1868 St John Bosco printed a publication entitled ‘Wonders of the Mother of God...