Don Bosco's relic arrived in Hong Kong on 17 March but was officially welcomed and celebrated only 10 days later. The casket will not remain permanently in the city, but - by the express will of the Rector Major - has as its final destination the Salesian Institute in Macao, the Mother House of the Salesians in China, founded in 1906 by the future saint Luigi Versiglia.
Because of some important redevelopment work in Macao, Hong Kong was chosen as an intermediary resting place.
In accordance with the wishes of Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, Rector Major, the Chinese province will make the casket available also to other Provinces and Vice- Provinces of the East Asia-Oceania Region that wish to organize another pilgrimage following the very successful one in 2011.
The casket that has arrived in the Province of China is just one of several containing important relics of Don Bosco that are to be exposed for the veneration of the faithful on the different continents. According to the plan approved by the General Council of the Congregation last August, other caskets have been brought to Kenya, Brazil, India (where the casket arrived at the beginning of March) and Panama (where it will arrive in the coming weeks).
