Word: salesians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today Genevieve Caulfield's matronly figure is a famous one in Bangkok. Her school, built on land that the government gave her in 1949, has six buildings and a special Braille printing press from the Foreign Operations Administration. Taught by a staff of Roman Catholic Salesian sisters and Thai volunteers, her 189 pupils come from all over the land-the children of high government officials and poor shopkeepers, of rich merchants, pedicab drivers and coolies. Eventually, she hopes to build a new $50,000 building, a vocational training center in Bangkok, and an elementary school in northern Chiangmai...
DOMENICO SAVIO (1842-57) told his pastor, at the age of five, that he was big enough to serve Mass. When he was twelve, the frail Italian schoolboy became one of the first pupils of St. John Bosco, founder of the Salesian Soiety and educational pioneer. Domenico died three years later, after "living a full life in 15 years...
Vatican authorities worried about Don Zeno's debts. They also doubted the wisdom of having a community built so completely around one man's personality. Fortnight ago, the Holy Office told Don Zeno that the time had come for him to leave Nomadelphia. A group of Salesian fathers would be assigned to teach the children, a commission appointed to unscramble the debts...
...loved you as my children. Now the church takes me away from you. I am no longer father to you. I am a priest in search of a diocese, and I am one of the unhappiest men on the face of the earth." Last week the first of the Salesian fathers arrived in Nomadelphia. Don Zeno packed his accordion and went off to rest and wait for a new assignment...
VIII-Long live St. John Bosco (19th Century founder of the Salesian order for the care and teaching of children...