(ANS - Turin) - It was January 1991 when it was decided to establish a "Mission Office" also in Italy, in Turin, where the Mother House of the Salesian Congregation is located. That Mission Office, now known in the world as "Missioni Don Bosco", has therefore just turned 30: three decades spent supporting the Salesian works around the world, financing them and helping them to grow, fostering and making known the works of good that are carried out in favor of the most disadvantaged people.

(ANS - Rosignano Monferrato) - Rosignano Monferrato, “sentinel of Casale”, by virtue of the town's strategic position, is a Piedmontese municipality located in the Province of Alessandria. It too, like many other municipalities in the Monferrato area, is closely linked to Salesian history. In Rosignano, Don Bosco found fertile ground and, thanks also to the impulse of the parish priest, Msgr. Giovanni Bonelli, a fraternal friend of Don Bosco, vocations flourished abundantly. Among these, the figure of Msgr. Ernesto Coppo, Bishop and Salesian missionary in the United States, Australia and Italy.

(ANS - Rome) - Both before Italy's unification and after, even when Rome was proclaimed "Capital" of the Kingdom, Don Bosco, a Piedmontese halfway between loyalty to the institutions of the Kingdom and unconditional love for the Pope, visited Rome 20 times for a total of almost 2 years of stay - not a little, considering the conditions of the means of transport of the nineteenth century. On those occasions he had to face the distrust of the ecclesiastical authorities, received the warm welcome of both Pius IX and Leo XIII, and aroused the devout admiration of the Roman people.