An interesting detail of this last course of CIN Annual Retreats was that no less than five Provincials found themselves involved in it: first of all the incumbent Provincial Fr Joseph Ng Chi Yuen (2018-2024), then former Provincial Fr Lanfranco M. Fedrigotti (2012-2018), former Provincial Fr Simon Lam Chung Wai (2006-2012), former Provincial Fr Norbert Tse Shiu Chung (1983-1989), and former Provincial Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze Kiun (1977-1983). If we then include all Retreat courses for 2023, then the number of Provincials involved increases to seven.

The sixth Provincial is the recently deceased revered and dear Fr John Baptist Zen Shing Yeh (†02-09-2023). He had taken part in the Taiwan course of the same Retreat series. The seventh Provincial is Provincial-elect Fr. Domingos Leong Teng Kok. Though one of the preachers of this year's Annual Retreats, he was not present in person in this course, having had to go to Taiwan to preach the Mid-Year Five-Day Retreat for the CIN formation communities. And yet, Fr Domingos was fully present every day in this course, too, through the fine Power Point and Retreat Booklet he had prepared for the participants of all Retreat Courses of the year 2023.

In preparing the Power Point, Fr Domingos relied especially on the newly-published Chinese translation of “Martiri in Cina”, the biographical masterpiece of Fr Guido Bosio S.D.B. The English translation of this same work (“Martyrs in China”) is also available in digital form on the BoscoLink site. We are grateful to God and to the hard-working translators for making this valuable work more widely available. Perhaps It would not be a bad thing if also the Luigi-Versiglia Callisto-Caravario Power Point were uploaded on BoscoLink as a little contribution to the celebration of their three Anniversaries. In CIN Province, we are very grateful also to the two Vice-Provinces of our EAO Region who chose to be named by the beautiful names of our two Protomartyrs: the Saint Callisto Caravario Timor Leste Vice-Province (TLS) and the Saint Luigi Versiglia Indonesia Vice-Province (INA).

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