1949: Jorge Mario Bergoglio attends the Salesian Wilfrid Barón de los Santos Ángeles of Ramos Mejía.
1969: December 13 he receives priestly ordination.
2019: The Holy Father affirms that the Salesians formed him "to beauty, work and always being cheerful" and that Don Bosco left "a revolutionary message at a time when priests lived the lives of citizens with detachment".
Fr Jorge Mario Bergoglio: 50 years of priesthood
1934: Mario Giuseppe Francesco and Regina María Sívori, who met at the Salesian Oratory in San Antonio, get married.
1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio receives the first Catholic sacrament in the parish of San Carlo Borromeo and Basilica of Mary Help of Christians.
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