Don Bosco Alumni
Park Circus, Kolkata
The Salesian work began with a simple catechism lesson which St. John Bosco gave to a sixteen-year-old bricklayer’s apprentice. From that time on, the Salesians have worked to bring the good news of God’s love to the young, especially the poorest and those most in need. As St.John Bosco himself put it, "It’s enough that you are young for me to love you!"
Since that time, a large spiritual family has grown out of St. John Bosco’s experience. Numerous groups look to him as a spiritual father as they try to spread the Gospel throughout the world. The Salesian Society represents the group which St.John Bosco personally established to launch new approaches in new initiatives for the education of youth. But there are now many groups in the Salesian Family that have a wide influence in the world: the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (Salesian Sisters), Salesian Cooperators, Past Pupils of Don Bosco (Don Bosco Alumni), and Don Bosco Volunteers. These groups are at work on behalf of young people in every corner of the world.
All the groups within Don Bosco’s spiritual Family share his educational method, popularly called "the preventive system". It is not a system at all, but a lifestyle, an educational approach, a pastoral method, and a spiritual heritage. Significantly, Don Bosco’s example and educational methods have inspired a Gospel lifestyle which leads to holiness of life, as witnessed in the lives of saints who have embraced Don Bosco's experience and made it their own.
The Salesians can be found worldwide in many different initiatives on behalf of young people: schools, oratories, youth centers, technical and professional training centers, parishes, foreign missions, and activities in the realm of mass media and social communications.
Today there are almost 35,000 Salesians and Sisters working for the young at home and on the missions in well over 100 countries. They are actively involved in all kinds of pastoral, educational and catechetical programmes on behalf of young people. Their lifestyle, like that of their two saintly founders, is characterized by cheerfulness, friendliness and a deep love of Christ in the young.
Province of Bangalore
Patron : Sacred Heart of Jesus Decree of Erection: March 19, 1979 PROVINCIAL FR. MATHEW MARUVATHRAIL Vice Provincial Fr.Thomas Tharayil Economer Fr. George Arimpoor Don Bosco 75, North Road Bangalore 560 084 Phone (080)5462492, 5463149, 5474958 Fax (080)5474958
Province of Calcutta
Patron: St. John Bosco Decree of Erection: May 28, 1926 PROVINCIAL Fr. JOHN BERGER Provincial House Salesian of Don Bosco 52 A, R.N. Chowdhury Road, Calcutta 700 015 Phone (033)2447972, 2447851, Fax (033)2452144
Province of New Delhi
Patron: Jesus the Good Shephered Decree of Erection: December 24,1996 PROVINCIAL FR. JOSEPH KIZHAKEKKARA Vice Provincial Fr. Mathai Vellappalli Economer Br.Isaac Puthumana Don Bosco School Alaknanda, P.B. 4367 New Delhi 110 019 Phone (011) 6430177, 6417712, Fax (011) 6218464
Province of Chennai
PROVINCIAL :P Francis Camillus FERNANDO Vice-Provincial :P Maria Arokiam KANAGA Economer :L Expedit LOBO
Province of Mumbai
Patron: St. Francis Xavier Decree of Erection: January 13, 1972 PROVINCIAL FR. TONY D'SOUZA Vice Provincial Fr. Steve Rodrigues Economer Fr. Edwin D'Souza Don Bosco Provincial House Post Bag 16637 Matunga Mumbai 400 019 India Phone (022)4145223, 4133475, Fax (022) 4145226
Province of Guwahati
Patroness : Mary Help of Christians Decree of Erection: October 17, 1959 PROVINCIAL FR. DOMINIC JALA Vice Provincial Fr.Francis Cheeramben Economer Br. Mathew Vazhamplackal Provincial Office Don Bosco, Post Box 258 Guwahati, 781 001 Assam , India Phone (0361) 546162, 510458, Fax (0361) 522822
Province of Hyderabad
Provincial Fr. Medabalimi Balaswamy Vice provincial Fr. Koonnanickal Jose Economer Fr. Thekkekara Antony Don Bosco Provincial House, Bosco Nagar, Kismatpur P.O Himayatsagar Road, Hyderabad PIN 500 030, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA Phone:[040]4017075 , 4017863: Provincial: [040]4017076 Fax [0091][040]4016616
Contents of the page
-Letter of 1846 on the origins of The Oratory -From the Companion of Youth 1847 -Don Bosco for poor and abandoned youth -Conversation with Urban Rattazzi -Confidential memo to Salesian Rectors -Conversation with Francis Bodrato -The idea of the Salesian Society 1873-74 -Historical outline of the Congregation of St. Francis de Sales -1874 -Memento for missionaries -The Preventive System -'General articles' = regulations for The Houses -The Preventive System applied to young people at risk -Concerning punishments -The Letter from Rome -Three letters to Salesians in America
