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The stable where John Bosco, as a child, gathered his neighbours for readings
In the lower part of the house at the Becchi, the rural house of the Bosco Occhiena family, there was a cowshed that became one of the favourite places in the house once the cold weather arrived.
Salesian missionaries in Europe
A forum on Salesian missionaries in Europe was published in the January issue of the Missionary Bulletin "Cagliero11".
“There are still those who suffer and die to witness to Jesus”: the missionaries killed in 2023
At the Angelus on the feast of Saint Stephen, the first martyr of the Christian community, Pope Francis recalled: “There are still – and there are many – who suffer and die to witness to Jesus [...] Now as then, the seed of their sacrifices which seems to die, sprouts, bears fruit, because God continues to work wonders through them.”
The building designed in 1859 to house the new classrooms
In the summer of 1859 the number of young people taken in at the Valdocco Oratory continued to increase and so did the need for new classrooms to house them.