Ljubljana, Slovenia - 1908 - Fr Michele Rua, Don Bosco's First Successor, sent the first Slovenian Salesian Cooperators to Ljubljana Rakovnik in 1901 after the first contacts with the Salesian Cooperators. Subsequently, Fr Rua visited the Salesian work in Ljubljana Rakovnik twice: in 1904 when the cornerstone of the shrine of Mary Help of Christians was blessed and in 1908 (in photograph) when he stopped there on his way to the Holy Land on pilgrimage.