Hajja Salesjana April June 2018

In 1967, the Community of the Sliema Oratory, which since 1921 had been separated from that of St. Patrick’s, was again joined to the same. In 1965, on February 5th, works started on another new large house in Dingli. It was to be Savio College, a house built with the fostering and formation of religious vocations in mind. A very generous benefactress from Sliema provided the land and Fr. Joseph Mangion was put in charge of the building which received financial support of the United States’ Mission Office. Many vocations are still coming from Dingli. The school opened with just twelve students in September 1968. Some of the first students came from the Summer Camps at the Salesian Oratory in Sliema. The first of these summer camps was organised by Fr. Joseph Borg and a couple of clerics in practical training, in summer 1967. This enabled a reorganisation in view of the setting up the new community in Dingli. In 1991 the Oratory community was again made 26 History Of The Maltese Salesian Delegation