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Superior General of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians Gives Opening Prayer at Vatican Summit on the Protection of Minors in the Church VATICAN CITY – Mother Yvonne Reungoat, Superior General of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (Salesian of Don Bosco), gave the opening prayer on the morning of February 22nd, 2019 […]

Yvonne was born in Plouenan, France in 1945. She earned her degree in History and Geography at the State University in Lyon, and taught first in the professional school of that city for 11 years. She was later a Superior and the Vicar of the Province. From 1983-89 she was provincial of the French province […]

Antonia Colombo was born in Italy in 1935. She made her first profession in the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in 1959, at the age of 24. In the same year, she obtained her law degree from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan. Next, you will be liscensed […]

Mother Marinella was born in Bagnolo, Piedmont (Italy) in 1921. She attended middle school with the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians in Giaveno (Turin) and high school at Mary Help of Christians in Turin. In 1946, she was accepted as a postulant and just two years later, made religious profession in Pessione (Turin), where […]

Rosetta was born in Aosta on October 20, 1922 to a deeply Christian family. She was the first of three sisters, one of which, Anna Marchese, also became a Daughter of Mary Help of Christians. Rosetta and her sisters attended nursery school and the first two years of elementary school at the Salesian Sisters’ house […]

Ersilia Canta was born in S. Damiano d’Asti on March 25, 1908. Because of familial poverty, she attend school as complementary boarder in the house of Mornese and went to high school in Nizza Monferrato, where she received a high school diploma with a teachers certificate. It was here in Nizza that she had the […]

Angela was born in Northern Italy in 1887. Her family was hard-working and faith-filled. As a girl, Angela was a student at the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians’ school in Nizza Monferrato. Angela was intelligent, thoughtful, responsible, docile to the action of grace, and very friendly with her companions. In 1906, she asked to […]

Ermelinda Lucotti, later simply known and loved as Linda, was born in Mede Lomellina on October 30, 1879. Her father was a baker, and when Linda was about 5 years old, the family began to grow – two little brothers were born to Linda. When Linda was 15, she lost her father and she became […]

Luisa was born in Turin in 1858. At age 11, she lost her mother and quickly became the effective mother to her 7 brothers and sisters. For nearly a decade, these circumstances provided a progressive and intense educational and motherly experience that prepared Luisa for a motherhood which was extensive and more spiritual. At age […]

Born in Cumiana (Turin) May 7, 1856, she was the third child of James and Louise. At the age of twelve, Catherine lost her mother. She was left alone in the house with her nine year old brother. Her eldest brother was a soldier and the second brother passed away when he was still very […]

St. Teresa of Avila, our patroness, is also known as St. Teresa of Jesus, was a prominent Spanish mystic, a reformer of the Carmelite Order and the foundress, with St. John of the Cross, of the Discalced Carmelites. She was born at Avila in Spain in 1515. When Teresa was 14, her mother died, causing […]

St. Francis of Sales was born in the Savoy region of France in 1567. He studied philosophy and theology in Paris and earned a degree in civil and ecclesiastical law at Padua. After his priestly ordination, he offered his services to the bishop as a missionary to bring the Calvinists of the Chablais region back […]

Salesian devotion to St. Joseph originated with St. Francis de Sales, who made St. Joseph the patron of the monasteries. Francis de Sales even gave a spiritual conference on “The Virtues of St. Joseph,”St. Francis wrote that valor, constancy, and strength are virtues which existed in St. Joesph. Below is a summary of how St. […]

Throughout the course of history, the Christian people have experienced the protection of the Virgin Mary. The title of Help of Christians, which Don Bosco associated with that of Mary, Mother of the Church is an indication of the special intervention of Mary in the most difficult trials of personal human life, of the Church, […]

St. John Melchior Bosco is often referred to as Don Bosco – “Don Bosco” means “Father Bosco” in Italian. Don Bosco was a man of bold courage. He was just the instrument which God chose to use to found a religious family dedicated not only to helping and educating the young and the disadvantaged, but […]