In 2025, the Salesian community celebrates 150 years of missionary work. In 1875, St John Bosco, who had originally wanted to become a missionary himself, sent the first group of members of his Congregation to Argentina. The southernmost part of South America, that is to say, the territories of Chile and Argentina, became the central mission area where the Salesians set their strength. Other parts of the world followed. Members of the Slovene community joined the missionary movement even before the first Salesian institution was founded on Slovene soil. In a century and a half, just under a hundred Slovene Salesians have gone to the missions. They have taken several original initiatives to support mission institutions, vocations and students from mission lands.
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