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• A Blessed Easter of the Resurrection 2025!
• A Blessed in Chambéry. Camille Costa de Beauregard, Founder of “Le Bocage”
• A great collaborator of Don Bosco: Fr Antonio Sala
• A heart as big as the shores of the sea
• A Mysterious and Prophetic Wheel (1861)
• A pergola of roses (1847)
• A protection centre for street children: in Lagos, Nigeria
• A Salesian, Director of the Pontifical Missionary Works in Lithuania
• A smile at dawn
• A truly blind man
• A year of dreams from above
• ADMA – A way to holiness and apostolate according to Don Bosco’s charism
• Alberto Marvelli, the Christian that even the Communists liked
• Alexandre Planas Saurì, the deaf martyr (1/2)
• Alexandre Planas Saurì, the deaf martyr (2/2)
• An interesting court case at Valdocco
• And the star stopped over a wheelchair
• Andrew Beltrami virtuous profile (1/2)
• Andrew Beltrami virtuous profile (2/2)
• Announcement from the Rector Major at the end of his term of office
• Apparition of the Blessed Virgin on the Mountain of La Salette
• Artemides ZATTI – Saint

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• Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Rome
• Basilicata – Calabria Missionary Project
• Beatification of Camille Costa de Beauregard. And afterwards…?
• Becoming a sign of hope in eSwatini – Lesotho – South Africa after 130 years
• Being lovable like Don Bosco (1/2)
• Being lovable like Don Bosco (2/2)
• Biographical Memoirs of St John Bosco
• Blessed Alberto Marvelli: a beacon of faith and social commitment in the 20th century
• Blessed Luigi Variara: 150th Anniversary of His Birth
• Blessed Maria Troncatti, a Daughter of Mary Help of Christians, will be canonised
• Blessed Michael Rua, an outstanding bloom from the garden of the Immaculate Conception Sodality
• Blessed Michael Rua.The Consecration of our Pious Society to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
• Blessed Titus Zeman, martyr for vocations
• Bullying. A new thing? It was also around in Don Bosco’s time

C

• Canillitas. Child labour in the Dominican Republic (video)
• Cardinal Angelo Amato S.D.B.: a cultured theologian between the West and the East
• Cardinal Augustus Hlond
• Caught between admiration and sorrow
• Children of the family
• Christmas 2024
• Coat of arms of Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime
• Communication Conference 2024, Shaping Tomorrow
• Community of the Mission of Don Bosco, a story of “family” and “prophecy”
• Connecting with the Millennial and ‘Gen Z’ mindsets
• Conversion
• Correcting “rebellious children” with St Francis de Sales
• Crown of the Seven Sorrows of Mary

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• Discover the latest news on our site (2)
• Discovering the missionary vocation
• Do holy water, blessings, and other sacramentals still have value?
• Don Bosco and animals
• Don Bosco and door-to-door waste collection
• Don Bosco and ecumenical dialogue
• Don Bosco and Eucharistic processions
• Don Bosco and his daily crosses
• Don Bosco and his date of birth
• Don Bosco and his mother
• Don Bosco and Italian
• Don Bosco and music
• Don Bosco and the Bible
• Don Bosco and the Church of the Holy Shroud
• Don Bosco and the Consolata
• Don Bosco and the marenghi
• Don Bosco and the Sacred Heart. Protect, atone, love
• Don Bosco and the titles of Our Lady
• Don Bosco attends a devils meeting (1884)
• Don Bosco in Albania. A father for so many young people
• Don Bosco in Cambodia
• Don Bosco in the Solomon Islands
• Don Bosco in Uruguay. The missionary dream has become a reality
• Don Bosco International
• Don Bosco promoter of “divine mercy”
• Don Bosco to Fr Orione: We will always be friends
• Don Bosco with his Salesians
• Don Bosco, la Salette, Lourdes
• Don Bosco, politics and the social question
• Don Bosco. A Hail Mary at the end of Holy Mass
• Don Bosco’s benefactors
• Don Bosco’s last will and testament
• Don Bosco’s nine-year dream. Theological – spiritual nuclei
• Don Bosco’s devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
• Don Bosco’s dream is more alive than ever
• Don Bosco’s educational journey (1/2)
• Don Bosco’s educational journey (2/2)
• Don Bosco’s gaze
• Don Bosco’s wandering books
• Don Elia Comini: martyr priest at Monte Sole
• Don Jose-Luis Carreno, Salesian missionary
• donbosco.info: a Salesian search engine
• Dream of the Ten Diamonds

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• Easter 2023
• Edmond Obrecht. I had lunch with a saint
• Educating our emotions with Saint Francis de Sales
• Educating the body and its 5 senses with Saint Francis de Sales
• Educating the Faculties of Our Spirit with Saint Francis de Sales
• Educating the Human Heart with Saint Francis de Sales
• Education according to st. Francis de Sales
• Election of the 266th Successor of Saint Peter
• Election of the first Rector Major
• Episcopal ordination of Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime
• Exhibition for the 200th anniversary of Don Bosco’s dream

F

• Faith, our shield and our victory (1876)
• Family Conversation
• Father Carlo Crespi “apóstol de los pobres”
• Father Crespi and the Jubilee of 1925
• Female education with Saint Francis de Sales
• Fifth missionary dream: Peking (1886)
• Fifty years of service. Father Rolando Fernandez
• Final Address of the Rector Major at the conclusion of the General Chapter 29
• Finally in Patagonia!
• First missionary dream: Patagonia (1872)
• Fourth Missionary Dream in Africa and China (1885)
• Fr Giulio Barberis and his “Cronichetta”: day by day at Valdocco with Don Bosco
• Fr José Luis Carreño Etxeandía. A salesian with the Heart of Jesus
• Fr Rinaldi at the Becchi
• Fr. Peter Ricaldone is Reborn in Mirabello Monferrato
• Francis de Sales. The Da mihi animas (3/8)
• From Croatia to Ethiopia: Don Bosco’s missionary dream continues

G

• Giuseppe Buzzetti, from migrant to first Salesian brother
• God gave Don Bosco a big heart …
• Good, trustworthy and courageous slaves
• Great saint, great manager

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• Habemus Papam: Leo XIV
• Halloween: a holiday to celebrate?
• Have you thought about your vocation? St Francis de Sales could help you (1/10)
• Have you thought about your vocation? St Francis de Sales could help you (10/10)
• Have you thought about your vocation? St Francis de Sales could help you (2/10)
• Have you thought about your vocation? St Francis de Sales could help you (3/10)
• Have you thought about your vocation? St Francis de Sales could help you (4/10)
• Have you thought about your vocation? St Francis de Sales could help you (5/10)
• Have you thought about your vocation? St Francis de Sales could help you (6/10)
• Have you thought about your vocation? St Francis de Sales could help you (7/10)
• Have you thought about your vocation? St Francis de Sales could help you (8/10)
• Have you thought about your vocation? St Francis de Sales could help you (9/10)
• Hiking to Heaven (1861)
• Holy Easter 2024!
• Holy Family of Nazareth
• How to find the resources to build a church

I

• I am a Salesian and I am a Bororo
• I killed her for a piece of bread
• I understood how Don Bosco felt
• I wish to continue to serve others… in a different way. MY NOMINATION AS CARDINAL
• If Patagonia must wait… let’s go to Asia
• In Memoriam. Cardinal Angelo Amato, SDB
• In memoriam. Don Sergio DALL’ANTONIA, sdb
• In memoriam. Fr Davide FACCHINELLO, sdb
• International Congress of Mary Help of Christians
• International volunteer work in Benediktbeuern
• Interview to the new Superior of Malta, Fr. Eric CACHIA
• Interview with don Alexandre Luís de Oliveira, Provincial of the Salesian Province of São Paulo
• Interview with Fr Aurélien MUKANGWA, Superior of the Africa Congo Congo Vice-Province
• Interview with Fr Francisco LEZAMA, Provincial of Uruguay
• Interview with Fr Luis Víctor SEQUEIRA GUTIÉRREZ, Provincial of the Angola Province
• Interview with Fr Philippe BAUZIERE, Provincial Brazil Manaus
• Interview with Fr. John Zosiama, Provincial of Shillong, India (INS)
• Interview with Fr. VÁCLAV Klement, new Southern Africa (AFM) Provincial
• Interview with Nelson Javier MORENO RUIZ, Provincial of Chile
• Interview with the new inspector don Peter Končan
• Interview with the new inspector of Japan, Fr Francis HAMASAKI
• Interview with the new provincial fr. Domingos LEONG
• Interview with the new Provincial Fr. Simon Zakerian
• Interview with the New Provincial, fr. Milan Ivančević
• Interview with the new superior Don Vincentius Prastowo
• Interview with the new Superior Fr Gabriel NGENDAKURIYO
• Interview with the Rector Major, Fr. Fabio Attard
• Is Confession Still Necessary?

J

• John Lee Tae Seok (1962-2010), a Salesian who will be spoken of again
• Joseph Augustus Arribat: Righteous Among the Nations

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• Laura Vicuña: a daughter who “begets” her mother
• Leaving for the missions… trusting in dreams
• Letter from Rector Major Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime
• Letter from the Rector Major after his appointment as cardinal
• Letter Rector Major. Appeal for missionaries 2023
• Letter Rector Major. Artemides ZATTI
• Life
• Life according to the Spirit in Mamma Margaret (1/2)
• Life according to the Spirit in Mamma Margaret (2/2)
• Life of Saint Joseph, spouse of Mary Most Holy, earthly father of Jesus Christ (1/3)
• Life of Saint Joseph, spouse of Mary Most Holy, earthly father of Jesus Christ (2/3)
• Life of Saint Joseph, spouse of Mary Most Holy, earthly father of Jesus Christ (3/3)
• Life of Saint Paul the Apostle, Doctor of the Gentiles
• Lotteries: real feats
• Luigi Variara the Founder who was himself ‘founded’

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• Mamma Margaret’s basket
• Marian Devotion from Don Bosco’s Perspective
• Mary Help of Christians in the city of eternal heat
• Mary Help of Christians, from here to the world
• Meeting Vera Grita of Jesus, Servant of God
• Memoirs of the future
• Message at the end of the 42nd Salesian Spirituality Days
• Message from Father Fabio Attard on the Feast of the Rector Major
• Missionaries 2024
• Missionaries in the Netherlands
• Missionary Appeal 2024
• Missionary Appeal 2025
• Missionary experience in Peru
• Missionary generosity in Southern Africa
• Missionary in Amazonia
• Missionary in Patagonia
• Missionary Synodality
• Missionary volunteering changes the lives of young people in Mexico
• Monsignor Giuseppe Malandrino and the Servant of God Nino Baglieri
• Mother Rosetta Marchese: deeply Salesian educator because rooted in Christ

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• New missionaries
• New Rector Major: Fabius Attard
• Nino, a young man like so many… meets the purpose of life in his Lord
• Nobody frightened the hens (1876)
• Novena to Mary Help of Christians 2025

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• On wings of hope. Message from the Vicar of the Rector Major
• One million children pray the Rosary
• Our annual gift
• Our guest: Father Alphonse Owoudou, Chapter Moderator

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• Patagonia, in the letters of the first missionaries
• Patagonia: “The greatest enterprise of our Congregation”
• Prayers and invocations attracting indulgences
• Preparations for the 150th Anniversary of the First Salesian Missionary Expedition (1875-2025)
• Profiles of families wounded in the history of Salesian holiness
• Progress
• Prophets of Forgiveness and Gratuity
• Purity and ways it can be safeguarded (1884)

R

• Rector Major, Fr Angel FERNANDEZ ARTIME, appointed cardinal
• Rector Major’s Message. That young man said to me: “My passion is Christ”
• Rectors Major of the Salesian Congregation
• Remember the sermon

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• Saint Francis de Sales, founder of a new school of perfection
• Saint Francis, promoter of culture
• Saint Monica, mother of Saint Augustine, witness of hope
• Salesian Cardinals
• Salesian Family. Like branches of a tree
• Salesian holiness
• Salesian Holiness 2024
• Salesian House at Châtillon
• Salesian House of Castel Gandolfo
• Salesian presence in the Caribbean
• Salesian Protomartyrs:  Aloysius (Louis) Versiglia and Callistus Caravario
• Salesians in Azerbaijan, sowers of hope
• Salesians in Tarnowskie Góry
• Salesians in Tijuana. A house on the border
• Salesians in Ukraine (video)
• Second Congress of Coadjutors of Africa
• Servant of God Akash Bashir
• Servants of God John Świerc and eight Companions Martyrs. Pastors who gave their lives
• Site Updates (1)
• Social inclusion according to Don Bosco
• Souls and horsepower
• South Asia. Don Bosco among the young
• Spreading Don Bosco’s missionary spirit
• St Dominic Savio. The places of his childhood
• St Francis de Sales as a young student in Paris
• St Francis de Sales at the service of education
• St Francis de Sales catechises the children
• St Francis de Sales forms his collaborators
• St Francis de Sales instructs him. Future of vocations (1879)
• St Francis de Sales university student in Padua (1/2)
• St Francis de Sales university student in Padua (2/2)
• St Francis de Sales, personal companion
• St Francis de Sales. Complete works and concordances
• St Francis de Sales. Following and seeking God’s will (5/8)
• St Francis de Sales. Gentleness (7/8)
• St Francis de Sales. Life (1/8)
• St Francis de Sales. Mary’s presence (8/8)
• St Francis de Sales. The Eucharist (6/8)
• St Francis de Sales. Trust in God Providence (4/8)
• St Joseph – a Father’s Heart (video)
• St Paul VI. The most Salesian Pope
• St. Francis de Sales. Friendship (2/8)
• Strenna 2024. “The dream that makes you dream”
• Strenna 2025. Anchored in hope, pilgrims with young people

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• The “Good Night”
• The “misunderstood” God of St Francis de Sales
• The boat
• The Cardinal Protectors of the Salesian Society of St John Bosco
• The Cemetery Boys
• The charge of 101. Salesian House Monterosa
• The Charism of Presence and Hope. A year travelling with Fr Angel
• The childhood of a future saint: Saint Francis de Sales
• The cleverest son
• The cricket and the Coin
• The Days of Salesian Spirituality
• The Don Bosco of Naples. The oratory of a thousand trades
• The dream at 9 years of age
• The dream at 9 years of age. Genesis of a vocation
• The dream of the 22 moons (1854)
• The Dream of the Elephant (1863)
• The dream of the two columns
• The Education of Conscience with St. Francis de Sales
• The Evangelical Radicality of Blessed Stefano Sándor
• The exegetes
• The Exercise for a Happy Death in Don Bosco’s educational experience (1/5)
• The Exercise for a Happy Death in Don Bosco’s educational experience (2/5)
• The Exercise for a Happy Death in Don Bosco’s educational experience (3/5)
• The Exercise for a Happy Death in Don Bosco’s educational experience (4/5)
• The Exercise for a Happy Death in Don Bosco’s educational experience (5/5)
• The festive oratory at Valdocco
• The Flood and the Life-saving Raft (1886)
• The Giving of the Salesian Missionary Cross
• The Good Shepherd gives his life: Father Elia Comini on the 80th anniversary of his sacrifice
• The great gift of holiness of Artemides Zatti, Salesian brother (video)
• The growing seed of the Salesian charism in the Bangladesh mission
• The handkerchief of purity (1861)
• The hands of God
• The Heart of Gold of Education
• The history of the Salesian missions (1/5)
• The invisible other Don Boscos
• The Italian Lira from 1861 to 2001 and 2022. The currency in Don Bosco’s time
• The Jubilee and devout practises for visiting churches. Dialogue
• The Jubilee of 2025 and the Jubilee Basilicas
• The Legacy of Pope Francis
• The letter from Rome (1884)
• The Life of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles
• The Little Lambs and the Summer Storm (1878)
• The miracle
• The name
• The New Headquarters of the Salesians. Rome, Sacro Cuore (Sacred Heart)
• The new rooms of the Salesian General Postulation
• The path of roses
• The perfume
• The pleasure of loving God like St Francis de Sales
• The prophecies of Don Bosco and the kings of Italy
• The Prophecies of Malachy. The Popes and the End of the World
• The rose
• The safe tradition of Blessed Michael Rua (1/2)
• The safe tradition of Blessed Michael Rua (2/2)
• The Salesian presence in Ethiopia and Eritrea
• The second missionary dream: across America (1883)
• The Servant of God Andrej Majcen: a Salesian completely dedicated to the young
• The Seven Joys of the Madonna
• The shepherdess, the sheep and lambs (1867)
• The Snake nd the Rosary (1862)
• The stork and its duties
• The story of the construction of the Church of Mary Help of Christians (1/3)
• The story of the construction of the Church of Mary Help of Christians (2/3)
• The story of the construction of the Church of Mary Help of Christians (3/3)
• The Syndrome of Philip and the Syndrome of Andrew
• The Tenth Hill (1864)
• The title of Basilica for the Church of the Sacred Heart in Rome
• The train timetable
• The tree
• The turning point in the life of St Francis de Sales (1/2)
• The turning point in the life of St Francis de Sales (2/2)
• The Venerable Father Carlo Crespi “witness and pilgrim of hope”
• The Venerable Monsignor Stefano Ferrando
• The Venerable Simon Srugi, salesian lay brother
• The Vicar of the Rector Major. Don Stefano Martoglio
• The way to hell paved with feeble resolutions (1873)
• The wise man
• The work of the Salesians in the Maghreb
• There is much more ‘thirst for God’ than you might think
• Third missionary dream: air travel (1885)
• This is love…
• Tibidabo Salesian house
• To the heights! Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati
• Towards a renewed missionary outlook

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• Venerable Archbishop Antônio de Almeida Lustosa “father and friend of the poor”
• Venerable Constatine Vendrame: apostle of Christ
• Venerable Dorotea Chopitea
• Venerable Francesco (Francis) Convertini, pastor according to the Heart of Jesus
• Venerable Ottavio Ortiz Arrieta Coya, Bishop
• Vera Grita, Mystic of the Eucharist
• Vera Grita, pilgrim of hope
• Visit to the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Rome (also in 3D)
• Visiting Rome with Don Bosco. Chronicle of his first trip to Rome
• Vocation promotion at the heart of youth ministry

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• We are Don Bosco, today
• What a gift, time!
• What are the requirements for entering the Salesian Society
• What is the ordinary activity of the devil and how to counter it
• When an educator touches the hearts of his children
• When the Lord Knocks
• Where was Don Bosco born?
• Who doesn’t pray?
• With Don Bosco. Always
• With Nino Baglieri, Pilgrim of Hope, on the Journey of the Jubilee
• Wonders of the Mother of God invoked under the title of Mary Help of Christians (1/13)
• Wonders of the Mother of God invoked under the title of Mary Help of Christians (10/13)
• Wonders of the Mother of God invoked under the title of Mary Help of Christians (11/13)
• Wonders of the Mother of God invoked under the title of Mary Help of Christians (12/13)
• Wonders of the Mother of God invoked under the title of Mary Help of Christians (13/13)
• Wonders of the Mother of God invoked under the title of Mary Help of Christians (2/13)
• Wonders of the Mother of God invoked under the title of Mary Help of Christians (3/13)
• Wonders of the Mother of God invoked under the title of Mary Help of Christians (4/13)
• Wonders of the Mother of God invoked under the title of Mary Help of Christians (5/13)
• Wonders of the Mother of God invoked under the title of Mary Help of Christians (6/13)
• Wonders of the Mother of God invoked under the title of Mary Help of Christians (7/13)
• Wonders of the Mother of God invoked under the title of Mary Help of Christians (8/13)
• Wonders of the Mother of God invoked under the title of Mary Help of Christians (9/13)
• WYD as a synodal experience of Church renewal

Y

• Young people making the novena to the Nativity of Mary well (1868)
• Young people’s gifts to Mary (1865)
• Youth and family pastoral care

Z

• Zatti the good Samaritan for the sick, doctors and nurses (video)

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• “I want to be useful to my people”. Lessons of life in missionary Africa
• “The Roman Stations”. A millenary tradition
• “Corso respire” 2024. Salesian missionary renewal course
• “It was like heaven”. The first Christmas Mass at Valdocco
• 150th anniversary of the first missionary expedition. Missionary Day
• 1924-2024. 100 years supporting the Salesian Missions. Salesian Missions Institute
• 1954-2024: 70 years since the canonisation of Dominic Savio