Educating for Citizenship with Saint Francis de Sales
P. Wirth MORAND “Valiant, obedient, a good citizen and magnanimous”—such were, according to Francis de Sales, some of...
Our Saints
Salesian Holiness 2025
Fr Pierluigi CAMERONI Download the 2025 Salesian Holiness poster The Salesian Postulation presents the 2025 annual dossier, documenting...
Educating for rest and leisure with Saint Francis de Sales
Life is not only made up of work and serious occupations; it is also punctuated...
‘I came to serve and give my life’. Rudolf Lunkenbein (1939-1976)
In July 1976, in the heart of the Brazilian Mato Grosso, a young German Salesian...
Vera Grita, a Woman of Peace
BSOL Editor The figure of Vera Grita, a humble Ligurian teacher and Salesian Cooperator, shines as a...
Blessed Philip Rinaldi. A father who brought Don Bosco into the heart of the twentieth century
In the journey of Salesian history, Blessed Philip Rinaldi occupies a special place. The third...
Educating for work and solidarity with Saint Francis de Sales
The child, once grown, is destined to integrate more or less quickly into the social...
Maria Troncatti: woman of reconciliation and peace
Maria Troncatti, Daughter of Mary Help of Christians, is a witness of consecrated life “in...
In Don Bosco’s footsteps: Blessed Michael Rua (1837-1910)
“We will always go halves!” At 9 years of age Michael (already fatherless) was admitted...
Educating the will with Saint Francis de Sales
With the faculties of the spirit, such as intellect and memory, one remains within the...
The hands of Sister Maria Troncatti
Sister Maria Troncatti, Daughter of Mary Help of Christians, declared a saint on 19 October...
On 20th October, the Novena of Blessed Michele Rua begins
Blessed Michele Rua (1837-1910) represents an extraordinary figure in the history of Salesian spirituality. As...
Abide by the limit, cross the limit. Blessed Titus Zeman, martyr, and the relevance of his message today
Prof. Lodovica Maria ZANET Don Tito Zeman (1915-1969), a Slovak Salesian, lived his priestly vocation with evangelical radicalism right...
Sister Maria Troncatti, missionary of hope among the peoples
In the photo, Mr. Juwà Bosco, a member of the Shuar people, miraculously healed through...
Family Education
Alongside the “sentiment for the child”, the 15th century saw the development of a sentiment...
The Venerable Monsignor Stefano Ferrando
Ángel Card. FERNÁNDEZ ARTIME Monsignor Stefano Ferrando was an extraordinary example of missionary dedication and episcopal service, combining the...
Cardinal Augustus Hlond
The second of 11 children, his father was a railway worker. Having received a simple...
The Education of Conscience with St. Francis de Sales
It was most likely the advent of the Protestant Reformation that brought the issue of...
Female education with Saint Francis de Sales
The educational thinking of Saint Francis de Sales reveals a profound and innovative vision of...
Joseph Augustus Arribat: Righteous Among the Nations
1. Biographical Profile The Venerable Joseph Augustus Arribat was born on 17 December 1879 in...
Venerable Ottavio Ortiz Arrieta Coya, Bishop
Octavio Ortiz Arrieta Coya, born in Lima, Peru, on 19 April 1878, was the first...
Beatification of Camille Costa de Beauregard. And afterwards…?
The diocese of Savoy and the city of Chambéry experienced three historic days on 16,...
Educating the Human Heart with Saint Francis de Sales
St. Francis de Sales places the heart at the centre of human formation, as the...
The Venerable Father Carlo Crespi “witness and pilgrim of hope”
ather Carlo Crespi, a Salesian missionary in Ecuador, lived his life dedicated to faith and...
The Evangelical Radicality of Blessed Stefano Sándor
Stefano Sándor (Szolnok 1914 – Budapest 1953) was a Salesian coadjutor martyr. A cheerful and...
Educating the Faculties of Our Spirit with Saint Francis de Sales
St. Francis de Sales presents the spirit as the highest part of the soul, governed...
With Nino Baglieri, Pilgrim of Hope, on the Journey of the Jubilee
The path of the 2025 Jubilee, dedicated to Hope, finds a shining witness in the...
St Dominic Savio. The places of his childhood
P. Natale CERRATO Saint Dominic Savio, the “little great saint,” lived his brief but intense childhood among the...
Father Crespi and the Jubilee of 1925
In 1925, in anticipation of the Holy Year, Father Carlo Crespi promoted an international missionary...
Educating our emotions with Saint Francis de Sales
Modern psychology has demonstrated the importance and influence of emotions in the life of the...
Venerable Francesco (Francis) Convertini, pastor according to the Heart of Jesus
The venerable Father Francesco Convertini, a Salesian missionary in India, emerges as a shepherd after...
Don Elia Comini: martyr priest at Monte Sole
On December 18, 2024, Pope Francis officially recognized the martyrdom of Don Elia Comini (1910-1944),...
Educating the body and its 5 senses with Saint Francis de Sales
A good number of ancient Christian ascetics often considered the body as an enemy,...
Vera Grita, pilgrim of hope
Vera Grita, daughter of Amleto and Maria Anna Zacco della Pirrera, was born in...
Education according to st. Francis de Sales
Education according to St. Francis de Sales is a path of love and care toward...
Salesian Holiness 2024
Every year, the postulator for the causes of saints of the Salesian Congregation, Don Pierluigi...
Blessed Luigi Variara: 150th Anniversary of His Birth
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Luigi Variara, an extraordinary...
Saint Francis de Sales, founder of a new school of perfection
For Francis de Sales, religious life is “a school of perfection”, in which one...
Andrew Beltrami virtuous profile (2/2)
(continuation from previous article) 3. Story of a soul3.1. Loving and suffering Fr Barberis sketches...
Blessed Maria Troncatti, a Daughter of Mary Help of Christians, will be canonised
On November 25th, 2024, Pope Francis authorised the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to...
St Francis de Sales, personal companion
‘My spirit always accompanies yours,’ wrote Francis de Sales one day to Jeanne de...
Andrew Beltrami virtuous profile (1/2)
The Venerable Fr Andrea Beltrami (1870-1897) is an emblematic expression of a constitutive dimension...
Fr Rinaldi at the Becchi
Blessed Don Filippo Rinaldi, the third successor of Don Bosco, is remembered as an extraordinary...
Life according to the Spirit in Mamma Margaret (2/2)
(continuation from previous article) 4. Exodus to her son’s priesthood From the dream at the...
Saint Francis, promoter of culture
As the pastor of a diocese the vast majority of which was made up of...
Life according to the Spirit in Mamma Margaret (1/2)
Fr Lemoyne leaves us a truly outstanding portrait in his preface to the life...
The Servant of God Andrej Majcen: a Salesian completely dedicated to the young
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the passing into eternity of the Servant of...
The safe tradition of Blessed Michael Rua (2/2)
(continuation from previous article) 2. Some traits of the theological virtues in Fr Rua2.1. Fr...
St Francis de Sales at the service of education
Francis de Sales was convinced that ‘on the good or bad education of the...
The safe tradition of Blessed Michael Rua (1/2)
“Be good, trust in God and paradise will be yours” (Blessed Michael RUA) Blessed...
The new rooms of the Salesian General Postulation
On 4 June 2024, the new rooms of the Salesian General Postulation located at the...
Blessed Alberto Marvelli: a beacon of faith and social commitment in the 20th century
In the panorama of the great witnesses of faith of the 20th century, the name...
The Good Shepherd gives his life: Father Elia Comini on the 80th anniversary of his sacrifice
Monte Sole is a hill in the Apennines near Bologna that until the Second...
St Francis de Sales catechises the children
Formed in Christian doctrine from childhood, in his family environment, then in schools, and...
A Blessed in Chambéry. Camille Costa de Beauregard, Founder of “Le Bocage”
Camille Costa de Beauregard (1841-1910), a Savoyard priest born in Chambéry, could have taken advantage...
St Francis de Sales forms his collaborators
Francis de Sales did not wish to become a bishop. “I was not born...
Correcting “rebellious children” with St Francis de Sales
In September 1594, Francis de Sales, provost of the cathedral, arrived, accompanied by his...
The turning point in the life of St Francis de Sales (2/2)
(continuation from previous article) Beginning of a new stage From this moment on, everything would...
The turning point in the life of St Francis de Sales (1/2)
After ten years of study in Paris and three years at the University...
Salesian holiness
The Holy Spirit unceasingly continues the hidden work in souls, leading them to holiness. Not...
St Francis de Sales university student in Padua (2/2)
(continuation from previous article) Francis went to Padua, a city belonging to the Venetian...
St Francis de Sales university student in Padua (1/2)
Francis went to Padua, a city belonging to the Venetian Republic, in October 1588,...
Nino, a young man like so many… meets the purpose of life in his Lord
Nino Baglieri was born in Modica Alta on 1 May 1951 to his mother...
Meeting Vera Grita of Jesus, Servant of God
Vera Grita, together with Alexandrina Maria da Costa (from Balazar), both Salesian Cooperators, were two...
Mother Rosetta Marchese: deeply Salesian educator because rooted in Christ
Mother Rosetta Marchese, Daughter of Mary Help of Christians, was Superior General from 1981 to...
The Venerable Simon Srugi, salesian lay brother
Simon Srugi was born on 15 April 1877 and grew up in a Greek-Melkite family...
St Francis de Sales as a young student in Paris
In 1578 Francis de Sales was 11 years old. His father, wishing to make...
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...
St Joseph – a Father’s Heart (video)
St Joseph, the foster-father of Jesus, is a not a well known saint, Little has...
Servant of God Akash Bashir
On 25 February, we celebrated the feast of our Salesian protomartyrs, Bishop Aloysius Versiglia...
The childhood of a future saint: Saint Francis de Sales
Francis was born on 21 August 1567 at the Château de Sales, in Thorens,...
Life of Saint Joseph, spouse of Mary Most Holy, earthly father of Jesus Christ (3/3)
St John Bosco (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...
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...
The pleasure of loving God like St Francis de Sales
In his famous Treatise on the Love of God, St Francis de Sales wanted...
Salesian Protomartyrs: Aloysius (Louis) Versiglia and Callistus Caravario
Louis and Callistus: the same missionary vocation for the salvation of souls, but a different...
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...
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
Stories of wounded families We are used to imagining the family as a harmonious reality,...
Luigi Variara the Founder who was himself ‘founded’
‘Founded’ in a glance that marked a lifetime Louis Variara was born on 15 January...
Blessed Titus Zeman, martyr for vocations
A man destined for elimination Titus Zeman was born in Vajnory, near Bratislava (in Slovakia),...
Zatti the good Samaritan for the sick, doctors and nurses (video)
“Zatti – hospital”Zatti and the hospital were an inseparable pair. Fr Entraigas remembers that when...
The great gift of holiness of Artemides Zatti, Salesian brother (video)
The chronicle of the Salesian college in Viedma recalls that, according to custom, on...
Don Bosco and his mother
The 150th anniversary of Don Bosco’s birth was commemorated in 1965. Among the conferences...
Alexandre Planas Saurì, the deaf martyr (2/2)
(continuation from previous article) The Salesian He was close to the sick, the children. The...
Blessed Michael Rua, an outstanding bloom from the garden of the Immaculate Conception Sodality
Dominic Savio arrived at the Valdocco Oratory in the autumn of 1854, at the...
Alexandre Planas Saurì, the deaf martyr (1/2)
Alexandre Planas Sauri, born in Mataró (Barcelona) on 31 December 1878, was a lay collaborator...
Venerable Constatine Vendrame: apostle of Christ
The cause for the canonisation of the servant of God, Constantine Vendrame, is advancing. On...
Venerable Archbishop Antônio de Almeida Lustosa “father and friend of the poor”
On 22 June 2023, the Holy Father Francis received Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the...
Venerable Dorotea Chopitea
Who was Dorotea de Chopitea? She was a Salesian cooperator, a true mother of the...
St Francis de Sales. Mary’s presence (8/8)
Fr Gianni GHIGLIONE (continuation from previous article) THE PRESENCE OF MARY IN SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES (8/8) The...
Servants of God John Świerc and eight Companions Martyrs. Pastors who gave their lives
Extremist ideologies, that is, ideas raised to the rank of absolute truths, always bring suffering...
St Francis de Sales. Gentleness (7/8)
(continuation from previous article) GENTLENESS IN SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES (7/8) Some episodes from Francis’s...
Father Carlo Crespi “apóstol de los pobres”
On 23 March 2023, the Church – after the examination of the theological virtues of...
St Francis de Sales. The Eucharist (6/8)
(continuation from previous article) THE EUCHARIST IN SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES (6/8) Francis received his...
St Francis de Sales. Following and seeking God’s will (5/8)
(continuation from previous article) FOLLOWING AND SEEKING GOD’S WILL, IN SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES (5/8)...
Vera Grita, Mystic of the Eucharist
On the centenary of the birth of the Servant of God Vera Grita, a...
St Francis de Sales. Trust in God Providence (4/8)
(continuation from previous article) TRUST IN GOD PROVIDENCE, IN SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES (4/8) Let...
Francis de Sales. The Da mihi animas (3/8)
(continuation from previous article) THE “DA MIHI ANIMAS” OF SAN FRANCESCO DI SALES (3/8) First...
St. Francis de Sales. Friendship (2/8)
(continuation from previous article) ST. FRANCIS DE SALES AND FRIENDSHIP (2/8) Having met Francis de...