Spain - The band that played at Don Bosco’s canonisation
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24 November 2023

Madrid, Spain - 1934 - A historical photograph of the Salesian house in Atocha, showing the student band. This band performed during the celebrations in honour of Don Bosco's Canonisation on Easter Sunday, 1 April 1934, in Rome. At the centre we see Blessed Enrique Saiz, the then Rector of the house, accompanied by some Salesian Brothers and Blessed Emilio Arce (far left, seated). The Salesian house in Atocha at that time had three musical ensembles: a band of children's instruments, another of cornets and drums with the older boys, and a small orchestra of violins directed by Fr Juan Beobide, a Salesian priest. 

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