Guadalajara, Spain - 1952 - In December 1952, the Spanish city of Guadalajara welcomed 109 young Salesian seminarians, students of philosophy. Arriving in the city by train, they went to occupy the new house that had just been built, that is the Philosophical Student House which was headed by Fr Emilio Hernández, a Salesian.

Turin, Italy - 1961 - On 11 June 1961 the first stone of the temple at Colle Don Bosco was laid. In the photo we see, in the background, Don Fedele Giraudi, who helped the designer to create the work and, later, Mgr. Fossati, in one of his last public appearances. Further behind, however, we see the little singers and chirichetti of Valdocco.

China - 1920 - The photo shows Mons. Luigi Versiglia (1873-1930), Salesian bishop, martyr, declared a saint in 2000, intent on cutting the hair of a young Fr Carlo Braga (1885-1971), a Salesian missionary in China and in Philippines, Servant of God, whose 50th anniversary falls this year. This very familiar trait is a sign of the great charity that pushed Archbishop Versiglia to make himself available to his missionaries. Fr Carlo Braga himself testified: “He had truly maternal attentions for his missionaries. He visited them when they were sick, serving them personally, as I myself experienced in one of my illnesses.”