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Salesian Family Spirituality Days: numbers

 

37th year

4 days

360 participants

43 different countries of origin

The numbers of the Salesian Family

There are 31 groups of the Salesian Family

 

Groups founded by Don Bosco:


1) Salesian Society of St. Francis de Sales - SDB (1859)
2) Institute of Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (1872)
3) Association of Salesian Cooperators (1876)
4) Association of Mary Help of Christians (1869)


The more recently founded groups:


1) Volunteers with Don Bosco (1994)
2) Witnesses of the Risen Lord (1984)
3) Sisters of the Visitation of Don Bosco (1983)
4) Fraternidad contemplativa Maria de Nazaret (1983)

What were the first Salesian houses opened outside Italy?

  1. Nice, France, 1875
  2. San Nicolás de Los Arroyos, Argentina, 1876
  3. Buenos Aires – La Boca, Argentina, 1877
  4. Buenos Aires – San Carlos, Argentina, 1877
  5. Villa Colón - Montevideo, Uruguay, 1877
  6. Las Piedras - San Isidro, Uruguay, 1879
  7. Rosario - Paysandù, Uruguay, 1881

How many Salesians are in initial formation?

 

Prenovices: 521
Novices: 435
Postnovices: 942
Trainees: 676
Theology students: 740
Brothers in specific training: 68

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