THE VENERABLE DON BOSCO
annalists merit an honored place in the literature of the world.
In other foreign missions, in Palestine, in Alexandria, Egypt, in Algiers and Cape Town, Africa, in Macao, China, in Tanjore and Calcutta, India, the same exalted ideals of sanctity and self-sacrifice dominate the Salesian; his mission is everywhere founded on the meekness and humility of the Sacred Heart of Jesus—the fullness of the interior life passing into outer activities of zeal, to win hearts and bow minds to the sweet yoke of Christ.
As a confirmation of my remarks touching the expansion of the Society, I will quote from one of the "Annual Letters" of Don Rua, the Superior-General, to the "Society of Co-operators", descriptive of the work accomplished by the Salesians in 1904, the sixteenth year after Don Bosco's happy death.
"Most rich in the blessings of the Heavenly Queen," he declares it to have been, "during this jubilee year of the definition of the dogma of her Immaculate Conception." He names no less than twenty-four new foundations in the different countries, of Festive Oratories, seminaries, theological institutions, schools of agriculture and institutes of arts and trades; while the Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians, have been called to establish fourteen new houses of their order in Italy, Spain, Belgium and South America. Urging upon his readers the duty as well as the glory of
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