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THE SALESIAN CONGREGATION
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| “…with love and gentleness you must draw these friends to the path of virtue.”, said the lady in Blue to the nine year old boy, little Johnny Bosco, in his dream, who later turned out to be one of the greatest educators of the 19th century – Don Bosco, the Founder of the Salesian Family. |
| Industrial revolution had attracted many jobless youth to the city of Turin, Italy. To this group – a flock without a shepherd – God sent Don Bosco as a father and friend. His method of education, called the preventive System, is based on the experience of God’s love for each person. This experience predisposes the Educator to welcome God in the Youth convinced that, in them, God offers the grace of encountering and serving Him, recognizing their dignity, renewing faith in their resources of goodness and educating them to the fullness of life. |
| In Turin, Don Bosco had a dream. “…Please come to us, we need you too.” Pleaded the rushing crowd of poor girls in tattered dresses, bare feet and unkempt hair, tugging at his cassock… Simultaneously, in Mornese, in a little hamlet in northern Italy, the young Mary Domenica Mazzarello, also, had a vision:… a building set in the midst of a field… the Sisters playing with the village girls… |
| God’s Hand was shaping the future of the peasant girl of Mornese. She became the Co-Foundress of a Congregation of Sisters that today covers the globe. Pope Pius XI aptly summarise her remarkable life thus – “Here is a woman of simplicity, as simple and unmixed as gold without alloy.” |
| St. Mary’s TTI bears testimony to the profound wisdom, unstinted devotion to the underprivileged and the educative foresight of St. John Bosco and St. Mary Domenica Mazzarello. |
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