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(ANS - Managua) – August 30 was the first day of the visit of the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, to Nicaragua. It started with a big meeting in an educational centre of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians. According to one estimate, there were about three thousand children, adolescents and young people present. The enthusiasm of the young people of Nicaragua was in tune with the strong heat both inside and outside the Institute.
Messina, Italy - August 2016 - On 23 August, at the community of St. Thomas, the Councillor for the Mediterranean Region, Fr Stefano Martoglio, and the Provincial of Sicily, Fr Giuseppe Ruta and several Salesians gathered to celebrate the 103rd birthday of Fr Vincenzo La Mantia, now the patriarch of the Salesians in Italy.
Iquique, Chile - August 2016 – As part of the centenary commemoration of the death of Bishop José Fagnano, the Vicar of the Rector Major, Fr Francesco Cereda, has begun in Iquique a tour of some cities of Chile, where he will meet with the various Salesian communities. He has visited Concepción where he met with representatives of the community of Talca, Linares, Concepción, Valdivia and Puerto Montt.