Don Bosco House Museum Helps Train Young Leaders

Don Bosco House Museum Helps Train Young Leaders

(ANS – Turin – July 20, 2022) – The training program for animators of the Salesian Central Italy Province (ICC) took place July 19-22. Included in the program, organized by the ICC Province Youth Ministry Team, was a visit to the Casa Don Bosco Museum at Valdocco, which allows SYM youths literally to follow Don Bosco’s steps at the birth of his mission in Valdocco.

Fr. Michael Pace, SDB, deputy director of the Don Bosco House Museum (a member of the New Rochelle Province), tells ANS, “In the basement, we delve into the protagonism of the young and the origins of the family spirit shared in the refectories, the kitchen, and even the cellar of the first permanent home of the Oratory. On the second floor, young people appreciate the architectural development of the Salesian citadel, three charismatic dreams of Don Bosco, and his main collaborators. The hall of paintings presents original masterpieces from the 19th century that not only adorned the Oratory churches but were an integral part of the educational-pastoral project that matured at the Oratory. On the third floor, the humanity of Don Bosco, meditated on in the room of his life and in the room of his death, opens to the contemplation of his holiness from which the holiness of the great tree of the Salesian Family in the world, now rooted in 32 branches, is born. Young people make the synthesis of all this by living the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist, right here where Don Bosco made his boys love these privileged encounters with the Lord.”