EUROPE/ITALY - 145th Salesian Missionary Expedition: to go all over the world to educate and evangelize

Saturday, 27 September 2014

Turin (Agenzia Fides) - On Sunday, 28 September, the missionaries of the 145th Salesian Missionary Expedition will receive the missionary cross from the Rector Major, Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime. Later, they will set out from Valdocco, the centre of the Salesian world, to go all over the world to educate and evangelize. According to information sent to Fides by ANS, the missionary celebrations will begin on the afternoon of Saturday 27, at Colle Don Bosco, with the Harambee, an event sponsored by VIS, the International Voluntary Service for Development, and by the Salesian Mission Animation movement of Italy. It is intended to bring together young missionary leaders and the volunteers who spent their summer vacation working in developing countries.
The highlight will be the Mass for the 145th Expedition, at which the Rector Major will preside. It will start at 12:00 in the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians. Twelve missionaries of the Salesian Congregation will receive the mandate. They have come to Turin from all continents and are being sent to all the continents (Zambia, Ethiopia and Tanzania, China and Azerbaijan, Brazil, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, Hungary). They will be joined by some Daughters of Mary Help of Christians and lay volunteers.
From the time of Don Bosco to the present, about 11,500 Salesians, 3,500 Daughters of Mary Help of Christians and several hundred volunteer missionaries have received the missionary cross at Valdocco from the Rector Major. About 2000 other Salesians have also been sent directly from their Provinces to mission territories. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 27/09/2014)


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