A motto and a logo on the road to canonization of Artemides Zatti

by | Sep 6, 2022 | a current event, Canonization, Salesian Brothers, Salesian Saints, Salesians of Don Bosco

02 September 2022 (ANS – Rome) – Animating a historic event for the Salesian Congregation and Family, such as the canonization of Artemide Zatti, requires an image and a phrase that are able to accompany on the path of preparation and during the event itself. Thus, on the part of the General Postulation of the Congregation, Fr. Pierluigi Cameroni invited a team of Salesians and lay people, both from Italy and Argentina, to think together about a motto and a logo that would express as clearly as possible the radiant and at the same time simple figure of Artemide Zatti. After several suggestions of possible mottos, the Rector Major, Fr. Ángel Fernández Artime, together with the Postulator General, Fr. Pierluigi Cameroni, presented the canonization motto “I believed, I promised, I was healed”. Almost all of the proposals had as a common basis these three words uttered by the future saint when bearing witness to his miraculous recovery from tuberculosis and, consequently, the origin of his vocation to serve the sick and the poor. They are three verbs that mark a spiritual journey of abandonment into God’s hands and dedication to the good of others. He, who was healed, would now...

Argentina – The believing Br. Zatti

by | Sep 6, 2022 | a current event, Canonization, Salesian Brothers, Salesian Saints

06 September 2022 (ANS – Buenos Aires) – In view of the canonization of Artemides Zatti, SDB, we share some articles of reflection and investigation on some traits of the future saint, prepared by the Salesian Bulletin of Argentina, the country where “the relative of the poor” lived his entire Salesian life. “There are as many stories of faith as there are believers, since each one gives himself with his own personality.” Romano Guardini (The Life of Faith) The vital act of faith is the personal story of the believer. If we say that at the roots of faith is a gift from God, we must also make sure that this gift is received by a person. Therefore, we need to know who the person is and his or her personality, because that is where his or her faith resides. Faith as personal adherence to God has been a personal story for Zatti, leading him to holiness in concrete work, in caring for the sick, in the world of health care. “I believed, I promised, I was healed” Zatti’s Christian faith began with his baptism in Boretto, near Reggio Emilia, in the basilica of San Marco on the same...

Celebramos 6 años de la canonización de San Juan Pablo II y San Juan XXIII [VIDEO]

by | Apr 27, 2020 | Canonization, Pope John Paul II

Hace seis años, el 27 de abril de 2014, el Papa Francisco declaró santos a San Juan Pablo II y San Juan XXIII durante una Misa concelebrada por más de mil pastores entre cardenales, obispos y sacerdotes, incluyendo al Pontífice Emérito Benedicto XVI, y ante unos 800 mil peregrinos. Source: Celebramos 6 años de la canonización de San Juan Pablo II y San Juan XXIII...