THE VENERABLE DON BOSCO
Settlement at Oakland. A new and magnificent Church of SS. Peter and Paul is in course of erection in San Francisco, by the Salesian Fathers. The Golden Coast receives a monthly record of Salesian events in the Don Bosco Messenger published at their Institute.
Archbishop Corrigan, emulating the zeal of his brother prelate, sought help from the Society of St. Francis of Sales for his large Italian flock. In November, 1898, the Very Reverend Ernest Coppo, who is now provincial of the Society in the United States, with the Reverend Frederick Barni and others received charge of the Italians settled in and arcund St. Brigid's parish, New York. Later his Grace intrusted to the Salesians the Church of the Transfiguration, one of the oldest Catholic Churches in the United States, and the Church of Mary, Help of Christians. Both parishes have flourishing schools and Festive Oratories.
The first Salesian College was opened in our country in 1903 under the auspices of Archbishop, now Cardinal Farley, it's principal aim being to foster vocations to the holy priesthood. The Fathers found a temporary home for their students in. the old provincial seminary at Troy, N. Y.; but at a later period they were transferred to their present beautiful and healthy location at Hawthorne, in the outskirts of New York City, where flourishes also the Columbus Institute. At the present time, 1916, there are about thirty priests
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