Hajja Salesjana January-March 2021

H AJJA S ALESJANA Views from Valdocco 30 CASA Don Bosco Museum is OPEN The big buzz in Turin recently was the inauguration of the Casa Don Bosco Museum. It marked the fulfilment of a mandate given to the Rector Major, Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, by General Chapter XXVII in 2014: make our salesian holy places more vibrant, more formative, more accessible to the world. After three years of courage, vision and teamwork, Casa Don Bosco opened on October 2, 2020. October 3, 2020 Ribbon Cutting Ceremony. The Rector Major, Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, (centre), is assisted by Fr. Pascal Chavez (left), young Cristiano, and Fr. Leonard Mancini (right), ICP Provincial What’s in a name? Notice the logo. Museo is in regular font, while Casa is big and bold. Deliberate. As Don Bosco’s home and the womb of the Salesian congregation and family, Valdocco will always be more Casa than Museum. But in order for Casa Don Bosco to be admitted to the Piedmont Region museum network, it was a legal requirement to add Museum to its name. And so it was, for good reason. Belonging to this network opens Valdocco to a vast network of possibilities that will expand Don Bosco’s educational and pastoral reach. The original underground Oratory dining hall for the younger boys, build by Don Bosco in 1856 after the Pinardi House was demolished. As from this issue, 'Views from Valdocc ' will become a regular article in our magazine replacing 'The Music Box'. The editor thanks Fr. Mike Pace sdb, Vice Director of the refurbished Don Bosco Museum, for accepting to be one of our regular correspondents giving us all the latest updates from Valdocco, the heart of our Salesian Family.