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Vatican authorities worried about Don Zeno's debts. They also doubted the wisdom of having a community built so completely around one man's personality. Fortnight ago, the Holy Office told Don Zeno that the time had come for him to leave Nomadelphia. A group of Salesian fathers would be assigned to teach the children, a commission appointed to unscramble the debts...
VIII-Long live St. John Bosco (19th Century founder of the Salesian order for the care and teaching of children...
Booking Agent. In Rome, an extraordinary Argentine emissary had already begun the selecting. He was the Rev. Jose Clemente Silva, member of the Salesian order and brother of President Peron's military secretary. His mission: to find in Italy and Spain (while Diplomat Adolfo Scilingo scouted the rest of Europe) the 250,000 workers, preferably skilled factory hands, whom Juan Peron needs for his five-year plan...
Across the River of the Dead and deep in the rolling tableland of Brazil's limitless interior live the wild Chavante Indians. Since Portuguese explorers back in 1790 poisoned their water supply, and killed hundreds, these Indians have fought the white man. For years Salesian missionaries sought to win the Chavantes with presents and "pacification through love." The Chavantes would have neither. Six priests of the mission were killed when they ventured too far into the forest...
Monsignor de Ferrari, a Salesian Father, died last August in Caracas. Last week news of his death reached the U.S., and with it as strange a tale as was ever told of jungles, of holy travels, and of unholy terror in the Venezuelan wilds...