More than 100 participants from different parts of the world are expected to attend this event. In addition to the presence of many consecrated persons there will also be a significant participation of lay people who share an interest and passion for promoting knowledge of the holiness of life of many men and women who have lived their Christian lives in the light of the charism of Don Bosco.
In addition to the vice-postulators, there will also be collaborators and promoters from the places where the candidates for holiness in the Salesian Family were born or where they lived their vocation and mission, or where their memory is particularly widespread. There will be representatives from the charismatic centres of Turin-Valdocco, Colle Don Bosco and Mornese, as well as persons linked to formation centres, and centres of spirituality and communication.
There will be talks, experiences, moments of sharing and group work to promote the knowledge of the Saints and candidates for sainthood of the Salesian Family, as exemplary witnesses of sequela Christi; availability in faithful imitation; thanksgiving and supplication for spiritual and material favours and miracles. All this is in order to strengthen and develop a feeling of closeness to the Saints, an affinity of heart and mind, an affective and spiritual "sympathy" and a "spiritual communion". It will keep alive their reputation for holiness and will also be a true pedagogy of holiness.
A special section for the event has been set up on the sdb.org site. It contains the detailed programme of activities and the contents of the seminar will be placed there.
