PHOTO ARCHIVES
Shanghai, China - 1926 - Saint Callisto Caravario, SDB, Salesian Protomartyr, poses for a group photo with 21 neo-baptized Christian children and an image of Mary Help of Christians. (In the picture, Saint Callisto Caravario is third from left).
Thailand, Hua Hin - 1955 - Thailand is one of the 49 countries that make up the Asian continent. In 1955, the Rector Major, Fr Renato Ziggiotti, visited the "Don Bosco" school in Hua Hin. Students used bicycles as a means of transport to go to school and return home.
Turin, Italy - On April 24, 1922, work on the expansion plan of the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians began. After several years of study, on April 29, 1935, the Sanctuary was enlarged. On June 9, 1938, in the year of the 50th anniversary of the death of Don Bosco, the expansion of the Sanctuary was inaugurated.
Buenos Aires, Argentina -14 June, 1947 - In this 1947 photo, we can see Fr Lorenzo Massa, SDB, at the blessing of the first stone of the Don Bosco Temple. In the invitation to the event sent by the Rector of the Salesian House, Fr Mario Pichi, it says: "Your lordship is invited, with your distinguished family, to the laying and blessing of the first stone of the Church dedicated to St. John Bosco." Fr Massa was the founder of schools, the initiator of the "Exploradores Don Bosco" and is known internationally as the founder of the famous Football Club "San Lorenzo de Almagro", which has Pope Francis among its supporters.