The
Salesian Bulletin comes from a former experience that Don Bosco had in having his own publication. Although the researchers never found a copy, it traced a second issue by August 1875 named
Bibliofilo Cattolico (
The Catholic Booklover) that was printed in the Oratory Press of Don Bosco. The
Catholic Booklover was dedicated to
late vocations. The first editions were published in
Italian, but it will be soon not just translated by edited in several languages between the 19th and 20th century.
Expansion In August 1877, Don Bosco did a transformation of the
Bibliofilo Cattolico to
Monthly Salesian Bulletin (
Bollettino Salesiano Mensile). The fact that Don Bosco numbered it as 5 and volume 3, proved the continuity with the
Bibliofilo. The
Salesian Bulletin published an article on April,
The Salesian Cooperators to the Everlasting Memory of the Great Pius IX (the
Pope who died in February 1878), appealing to the charity of the Salesian cooperators to support the project. In a letter signed by
Cardinal Alexander Franchi, the Archbishop communicated to Don Bosco that he was going to build a church in honor of the deceased Pope and, therefore, "
a dual appeal to Christian charity for one and the same purpose seems inadvisable". Don Bosco answered to the Cardinal that the appeal was not for the
faithful but for the Salesian cooperators and that it was published in
Sampierdarena and not in Turin, being, therefore, under the authority of the
Archbishop of Genoa. The answer of Don Bosco was contested by the
Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars where he was prohibited to continue with the project of the new church. ==References==