For the Salesian family, October is the month of Don Rua. This is even more this year, the centenary of his death, and his party preparing the next day 29. And October 1863 came a decisive episode in the life of that years later would be the first successor of Don Bosco. Rua Miguel reached on 12 Mirabello, with his mother Mary Jane (the new mom Margarita in the new foundation), to take possession of his new position as director of the house. Mirabello was the first Salesian outside Turin. The new director had been in the squalid bag a big task: be Don Bosco Oratory in the first transplant was the cradle of the Congregation. You can imagine the sentiments that the young priest and the responsibility he felt in his heart to this new stage in the nascent Salesian Society.
But with the simplicity of those who have their sights set on God, Miguel undertook the business with confidence. I knew things were not going to be easy. The community that Don Bosco sent to take charge of the mission was very young and more rather inexperienced. Michael, the director, was the only priest. Completed the group five clergy and four youths who were not yet Salesians. Creativity and generosity times, times of unusual boldness and confidence in God. Times, some would say, for temerity. But times, to Don Bosco and Don Rua, drive and innovation that opened up immense possibilities to the recent foundation.
And so, after much negotiation with the city council, with the approval of the bishop and with the support of a family benefactor of Don Bosco, Salesian seed was planted outside Turin in the newly released Fall 1863. The school was soon filled with boys and then took the new project to life image of Valdocco. Don Bosco
I send Miguel a long letter of obedience by giving some advice to a father who, for sure, Don Rua always keep in my heart. Among them, a Don Bosco said: "Make love to make you fear before" . The father knew the character of the child. I knew him since childhood and grew up with him. Uncommon intelligence and enormous capacity, but its apparent severity did not go unnoticed by Don Bosco. But he knew well that Rua had the makings of a saint and would be able to overcome his character transforming into kindness and sympathy. He was right. Miguel was the face of Don Bosco in Mirabello. He soon won the hearts of all perfection and served with the mandate of his master, endeared himself so much that when Don Bosco - two years later - called him back to Turin, nobody wanted to leave. Young Rua
remarkably fulfilled their duties in Mirabello. Had good school. Raised in the shadow of Don Bosco, learned to endear him to show affection after delivery and generosity towards all, to always have about the kind word and gesture appropriate to winning the sympathy of those who dealt with him . Don Bosco could rest easy: the one who started small hand half joking had seriously begun to share the responsibilities of the new congregation called to spread very quickly in the five continents. Mirabello was the first test. Rua Miguel made the first outside Valdocco Don Bosco. Quite an achievement. It was the first step of a long journey in which the young Rua extended to the ends of the world when the spring became a wide river.
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