(ANS - Rome) - The influence of St. Francis de Sales on Don Bosco was also manifested in the Youth Saint's great passion for communication. He expressed it with the means of his times, but in all its forms, developing it from beginning to end: from the elaboration of texts to their printing and dissemination. All and always to spread the Good News and work in the service of youth.

(ANS - Rome) - Among the oldest films on the life of St. John Bosco is Goffredo Alessandrini's 1935 work entitled "Don Bosco." Starring Gian Paolo Rosmino as the Saint of the Young, and with Maria Vincenza Stiffi as Mamma Margherita, the film narrates the life of Don Bosco, from his birth to his canonization in 1934. Also appearing in the film are: Roberto Pasetti, Ferdinando Mayer, Vittorio Vaser, and Felice Minotti.

(ANS - Rome) - "We are children of a dreamer" is an expression often used by his successors to refer to the Founder of the Salesian Congregation and Family. And this is not only because of his ability to see far beyond his contemporaries, foreshadowing developments and realities that would be openly manifested only much later; but also because of that mystical ability of his to have as it were "supernatural visions" capable of directing his own path and that of those who followed him.