Italy - Rector Major commemorates 16 May 1887 event

16 May 2018

Rome, Italy - May 16, 2018 - The Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, together with the General Economer, Br Jean Paul Muller, and the new Provincial Economers, on the altar of Mary Help of Christians at the Sacred Heart, commemorates the event of May 16 1887. Don Bosco, celebrating mass at the altar of Mary Help of Christians in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, burst into tears, and was so overcome by emotion, he had to be helped complete the celebration. Don Bosco then explained to his Salesians that he had reviewed his entire history and the presence of the Lord and Mary beside him, since the time of his famous dream at nine years of age to the present.

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