In DB's garden

By J. Mota, SDB Comoro, Dili, Timor-Leste 6 April 2022 -- As time moves on our great Salesian missionaries do to, one by one, as if waving and disappearing in the sight of everyone. After two years since the great late Fr. João de De...

Fr Archimedes Martelli (first SDB in Korea) 1916-1984   Biography (2022) English KOR-Martelli Archimede 1916-1984 ENG (Original).docx   Short summary of the biography (2019) 05. KOR-Martelli_SUMMARY EN.pdf  

Rises into the Salesian Garden By In loving memory of Fr. Valeriano Barbero, SDB - Compiled by Fr Ambrose Pereira SDB, snippets from the many tributes ... PNG, 18 April 2023 -- Fr. Valeriano Barbero SDB, passed away peacefully on 14 April, ...

Fr Gerrit Kraan (1929-2022)  

Serving the young as a printer, musician, scholar, poet, teacher, catechist, author, and librarian. By Fr. Lanfranco M. Fedrigotti Hong Kong, China, 24 October 2023 -- On the 10th day of the 10th month, at about 10 o'clock at night, 95-...

By Augustine DoPhuc, SDB Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 5 November 2021 -- At 8:00 a.m, on 3 November 2021, at Ben Cat parish (Go Vap District, Ho Chi Minh City), a funeral Mass was celebrated for Salesian Brother Vincent Hoang Van Chuyen, SDB....

Fr. Tsuchiya, SDB (1934-2021) RIP By Fr. Michael Lap, SBD Tokyo, Japan 6 January 2022 -- Father Tarcisio Tsuchiya Shigeaki ,sdb entered Don Bosco's garden on 29 December 2021 at the age 87 and 68 years of Salesian life in Osaka - Japan....

FR. ROBERT JOSEPH FALK, SDB (1932-2022)         by Fr. Mike Mendl, SDB                Fr. Robert J. Falk, SDB, a longtime Salesian missionary to Korea, went home to the Lord on the afternoon of April 13, 2022, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Seoul...

Fr Mika Leilua (1963-2021)   LIFE LIVED WELL as TRUE SALESIAN OF DON BOSCO   Fr Mika Leilua was born in the village of Vaiusu in Samoa on 15 May 1963 to devout Catholic parents, Leo Leilua and Lesina Ulugia in a family of nine children. Havi...

By our own correspondent World, 25 April 2021 -- "In two days two great Salesians (Fr Jose Carbonell and Fr Thomas Panakezham) have left us to enter into the glory of God. They have contributed immensely to the Salesian mission, of Asia and...

ALA_5468 Br. Lodovico De Marchi, SDB By VIE provincial secretary Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 16 September 2020 -- Last Sunday, 13 September, a life-long friend of Vietnamese Youth, Salesian Missionary passed away - Brother Lodovico De March...

By our own correspondent World, 23 April 2021 -- In the early morning hours in El Campello - Spain, a great Salesian missionary, Fr. Jose Carbonnel Llopis (1927-2021) passed away on 22 April 2021, after 74 years of Salesian consecrated life...

By Formation Sector, Rome Rome, 12 March 2021 -- Fr Julien Jackers, 76 years of age, passed away in Kenya. In the EAO region he was best known in Myanmar and in Timor Leste, but also through his work in formation (postnovitiate stage in 201...

By Cl Joji Arakawa, SDB Tokyo-Chofu, Japan, 23 October 2023 - Tokyo-based confrere, Salesian Priest Aloysio Shirou Sakanashi (1932-2023) of the Suginami Community, was called to heaven with Don Bosco at 7:36 p.m. on Saturday, October 21, 20...

ALA_5437 By Fr. Joseph Kriengsak Provincial Secretary Bangkok, Thailand, 3 August 2020 -- The Provincial community of St Paul the Apostle (THA) of Thailand - Cambodia - Laos is mourning the sudden demise (due to heart failure) of Fr. Micha...

Tokyo, Japan, 18 February 2023 -- On 31 January 1888, before leaving his boys, Don Bosco said: “Dite ai miei ragazzi che li aspetto tutti in Paradiso” (Tell my boys that I will wait for them all in Heaven). Today the Province of...

ALA_5301 24 January 2020 Dear EAO region friends, Today in the evening our beloved Fr. Francesco Maraccani passed in a silent mood to the house of the Father. Simple sketch of a great Salesian Fr. Francesco Maraccani (1936-2020) a great Sal...

ALA_5335 Joyful and faithful disciple of Jesus - Br. Paolino LIN By Province provincial secretary China Province, 11 March 2020 -- Salesian Brother Paul (Paolino) LIN Yin-nien was born in Shanghai on 16 July 1928 and made his first professi...

By THA SC Banpong, Thailand, 3 October 2023 -- On 18 September 2023, at 09.30 hrs, Bishop Silvio Siripong Charatsri presided at the Holy Mass of the funeral service of Bro. Paul Chun Chanhom, a Salesian brother, at St Joseph Church, Banpong...

ALA_5441 First Rector in Taiwan (1926-2020) By Fr. Lanfranco Fedrigotti Taipei, Taiwan, 9 August 2020 -- At about 14:00 hours on Friday, 07 August 2020, the Good Lord has called to himself our beloved 93-year-old Fr John Ma Yeong Ding (192...