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Association Of Salesian Cooperators
Association of Salesian Cooperators (ASC) is the movement of laity of the Salesian Family of Don Bosco and is the third order of the Salesian Order. It is also one of the three main branches of the Salesian Family founded directly by Don Bosco in 1876. The movement was created with the purpose to share the ideals of the Salesian Preventive System in the education of young people, especially those who are poorest, without the need to be a priest or a lay religious. According to a 2005's census, there are 26,703 persons affiliated to this movement around the world. The ASC's superior is the Rector Major of the Salesians, inside a board of trust known as the World Council. Priests and bishops of the dioceses can join this movement, sharing the ideals and educative philosophies of Don Bosco. History In 1873, Pope Pius IX approved the rules of the Salesian Society. In the 1876 Annual Conference's report of the Society of Saint Francis de Sales, Don Bosco mentioned his plan to crea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laity
In religious organizations, the laity () consists of all members who are not part of the clergy, usually including any non-ordained members of religious orders, e.g. a nun or a lay brother. In both religious and wider secular usage, a layperson (also layman or laywoman) is a person who is not qualified in a given profession or does not have specific knowledge of a certain subject. The phrase "layman's terms" is used to refer to plain language that is understandable to the everyday person, as opposed to specialised terminology understood only by a professional. Some Christian churches utilise lay preachers, who preach but are not clergy. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints uses the term ''lay priesthood'' to emphasise that its local congregational leaders are unpaid. Terms such as ''lay priest'', ''lay clergy'' and ''lay nun'' were once used in certain Buddhist cultures to indicate ordained persons who continued to live in the wider community instead of retiring t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandrina De Balazar
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Alexandrina may refer to: *Alexandrina (name), a female name *Lakes: **Lake Alexandrina (South Australia) **Lake Alexandrina, New Zealand *Alexandrina Council, a local government area covering land on the west side of Lake Alexandrina in South Australia *Bibliotheca Alexandrina *''Alexandrina'' (''Александрына''), a song by Belarusian band ''Pesnyary'' See also *Alexandrine (other) "Alexandrine" is an adjective largely synonymous with "Alexandrian". It may refer to: Literature * An alexandrine, a twelve-syllable line of poetry; exhibiting slightly different characteristics in different languages: **French alexandrine **Polis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matilde Salem
Matilde Salem, ASC (November 15, 1904 – February 27, 1961, Aleppo, Syria) was a Syrian Salesian cooperator, community leader, and Catholic Laywoman. She was proclaimed a Servant of God by the Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo, Isidore Fattal. Life and Marriage Matilde Salem, née Chelhot, was born in Aleppo, Syria on November 15, 1904 to a wealthy family. She studied in a convent belonging to the Armenian Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, from which she developed intense internal prayer life. At the age of 18, she was wed to one Georges Elias Salem, a successful young businessman, on August 15, 1922. Georges was a very austere, strict, possessive, and authoritarian man, in which Matilde would have to try very hard to calm down at times. He was nonetheless kind to Matilde. They soon discovered that they would not have children of their own. Later on, Georges became ill with type 2 diabetes, which he would soon succumb to on October 26, 1944. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorotea De Chopitea
Antonia Dorotea de Chopitea de Villota (4 June 1816, Santiago, Chile – 3 April 1891, Barcelona, Spain) was a Chile-born philanthropist and social worker based in Barcelona. She is considered the principal patroness and the most important social work promoter in Barcelona in the 19th century. She was declared Venerable by Pope John Paul I on 9 June 1983. Life Antonia Dorotea de Chopitea de Villota was born on 4 June 1816 in Santiago, Chile, to Pedro Nicolás de Chopitea and Isabel de Villota. Her father was a royalist and after the proclamation of Independence of Chile his assets were confiscated. In 1819, the family was forced in to move to Spain and settled in Barcelona. In 1831, they briefly returned to Chile hoping to recover lost possessions and obtain compensation for their confiscated assets, however it was unsuccessful, and the family returned to Barcelona the same year. At the age of 16, Chopitea married 22-year-old Josep María Serra Muñoz on 31 October 1832. The m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandrina Of Balazar
Alexandrina Maria da Costa (30 March 1904 – 13 October 1955), best known as Blessed Alexandrina of Balazar, was a Portuguese mystic and victim soul, member of the Association of Salesian Cooperators, who was born and died in Balazar (a rural parish of Póvoa de Varzim). On 25 April 2004 she was declared blessed by Pope John Paul II who stated that "her secret to holiness was love for Christ". Early life Alexandrina Maria da Costa was born on 30 March 1904, in Balazar, a rural parish of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. Her father abandoned the family when she was very young. She had only eighteen months' schooling before being sent to work on a farm at the age of nine. In her teens she started to work in Balazar as a seamstress along with her sister.Freze, Michael. 1993, ''They bore the wounds of Christ'', OSV Publishing page 279 Alexandrina said that when she went with other girls to the countryside, she picked flowers that she later used to make flower carpets to the Chur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salesian General Chapter
, image = File:Stemma big.png , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of arms , abbreviation = SDB , formation = , founder = John Bosco , founding_location = Valdocco, Turin , type = Clerical Religious Congregation of Pontifical Right , headquarters = Rome, Italy , purpose = , membership = 14,614 (128 bishops, 14,056 priests and 430 novices) , membership_year = 2022 , leader_title = Rector Major of the Salesians , leader_name = Ángel Fernández Artime, SDB , leader_title2 = Vicar of the Rector Major , leader_name2 = Francesco Cereda, SDB , website = , nickname = Salesians of Don Bosco The Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), formally known as the Society of Saint Francis de Sales (), is a religious congregation of men in the Catholic Church, founded in the late 19th century by Italian priest Saint John Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salesian Bulletin
''The Salesian Bulletin'' is an official publication of the Salesians that was founded in August 1877 by Don Bosco. It has been published without interruption since then. The purpose of the ''Salesian Bulletin'' is the proliferation of the educational works of Don Bosco all over the world. As for 2010, the Bulletin was published in 56 different editions and 29 languages for 135 countries. Purpose The ''Salesian Bulletin'' was established by Don Bosco. It was linked initially with the foundation of the Association of Salesian Cooperators and the first Salesian missionaries in the Americas. Don Bosco intended that the Bulletin, as the official publication of the Salesian Congregation, "will link Salesians and cooperators." History The ''Salesian Bulletin'' comes from a former experience that Don Bosco had in having his own publication. Although the researchers never found a copy, it traced a second issue by August 1875 named ''Bibliofilo Cattolico'' (''The Catholic Booklover'') tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salesians Of Don Bosco
The Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), formally known as the Society of Saint Francis de Sales (), is a religious congregation of men in the Catholic Church, founded in the late 19th century by Italian priest Saint John Bosco to help poor children during the Industrial Revolution. The congregation was named after Saint Francis de Sales, a 17th-century bishop of Geneva. The Salesians' charter describes the society's mission as "the Christian perfection of its associates obtained by the exercise of spiritual and corporal works of charity towards the young, especially the poor, and the education of boys to the priesthood". Its associated women's institute is the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, while the lay movement is the Association of Salesian Cooperators. History In 1845 Don John Bosco ("Don (honorific)#Italy, Don" being a traditional Italian honorific for priest) opened a night school for boys in Valdocco (Turin), Valdocco, now part of the municipality of Turin in Italy. In the foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pope Pius IX
Pope Pius IX ( it, Pio IX, ''Pio Nono''; born Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878, the longest verified papal reign. He was notable for convoking the First Vatican Council in 1868 and for permanently losing control of the Papal States in 1870 to the Kingdom of Italy. Thereafter he refused to leave Vatican City, declaring himself a " prisoner of the Vatican". At the time of his election, he was seen as a champion of liberalism and reform, but the Revolutions of 1848 decisively reversed his policies. Upon the assassination of his Prime Minister Rossi, Pius escaped Rome and excommunicated all participants in the short-lived Roman Republic. After its suppression by the French army and his return in 1850, his policies and doctrinal pronouncements became increasingly conservative, seeking to stem the revolutionary tide. In his 1849 encyclical '' Ubi primum'', he emphasized Mary's role in salvation. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salesian Family
, image = File:Stemma big.png , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of arms , abbreviation = SDB , formation = , founder = John Bosco , founding_location = Valdocco, Turin , type = Clerical Religious Congregation of Pontifical Right , headquarters = Rome, Italy , purpose = , membership = 14,614 (128 bishops, 14,056 priests and 430 novices) , membership_year = 2022 , leader_title = Rector Major of the Salesians , leader_name = Ángel Fernández Artime, SDB , leader_title2 = Vicar of the Rector Major , leader_name2 = Francesco Cereda, SDB , website = , nickname = Salesians of Don Bosco The Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), formally known as the Society of Saint Francis de Sales (), is a religious congregation of men in the Catholic Church, founded in the late 19th century by Italian priest Saint John Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dioceses
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associated in a larger unit, the diocese (Latin ''dioecesis'', from the Greek term διοίκησις, meaning "administration"). Christianity was given legal status in 313 with the Edict of Milan. Churches began to organize themselves into dioceses based on the civil dioceses, not on the larger regional imperial districts. These dioceses were often smaller than the provinces. Christianity was declared the Empire's official religion by Theodosius I in 380. Constantine I in 318 gave litigants the right to have court cases transferred from the civil courts to the bishops. This situation must have hardly survived Julian, 361–363. Episcopal courts are not heard of again in the East until 398 and in the West in 408. The quality of these courts was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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