PHOTO ARCHIVES
(ANS - Rome) – A meeting of young people at the Salesian Oratory of the Sacred Heart in Rome in the year 1950. In the photo we see a Salesian in a black cassock, and many young people.
Mexico, Zapopan - 11 December 1967 - The Rector Major Fr Luigi Ricceri posing for a souvenir photo with the Salesians who accompanied him to lunch in the New Philosophical Student House at Zapopan in Jalisco State.
(ANS – Turin) – The photo was taken in 1948 at the end of the Summer activities called “Estate dei Ragazzi”, in the Mother House of Turin, in the main playground of Valdocco. In the picture it is worth noting the great number of young people assisted by the presence of Salesians, on one side, and by the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, on the other.
(ANS – Agua de Dios) – A School for people suffering from Hansen Disease (known also as leprosy) in Agua de Dios, Colombia, run by the Salesians. In the photo, which is dated 1950 and was presented at the “Charity Photographic Exhibition” organized in Turin on the occasion of the Holy Year, a priest is seen in the middle, with a group of musicians. In 1891 Fr. Michele Unia commenced his work at the service of the sick and the youth. The Salesians were in charge of the parish, which was attended by about 10.000 faithful and looked after 6.000 sick people. In the town of Guaramayo they also ran a school for 450 healthy children, born to people suffering from Hansen Disease.