„Spenetrować teren nieprzyjaciela poprzez wychowanie młodzieży”. Zaangażowanie salezjanów misjonarzy polskich w działalność wychowawczą w szkołach w o
The commitment of salesians of polish missionaries into the educational activities in schools within a period of the rectorate father. Michał Rua (188

Summary/Abstract: In the year 2010 Salesian Congregation celebrates 100 anniversary of the death blessed Michał Rua, the first successor of Don Bosco’s on the position of Rector Major of Salesians. Father Rua carried out Salesians through the difficult period of the passage from charismatic times of the Founder to practical faithful of Don Bosco’s charismat. One of indications of this dynamic faithfulness was development of the salesian mission work. Father Rua not only animated the quantitative growth of salesian presence in new foundations in Latin America , U.S.A., Africa, Asia and Europe, but took pains, so that was done according to the missionary strategy proposed by Don Bosco. The founder of Salesians wished to evangelise trough the education. Therefore wherever came salesian missionaries arose all types of schools, boarding-schools and oratories. Salesian work was accepted willingly even by authorities often hostile to the Church and by the local population not infrequently secularization. Depended on this, so that as be accustomed to say Don Bosco „to penetrate the ground of the enemy across the education, sending before evangeliser crowds of the young people”. Within a period of father Rua’s Rua into the realization of this program, close to Salesians from Italy and originating from other countries, joined near 100 missionaries of Poles. They number of Polish salesians was the second just after Italians. The present article shows details of their commitment into the missionary program of Salesians in the period of the rectorate of father Rua, calling the special genesis of their salesian and missionary’s vocation, conditions in which came to work to them and challenge, which realized in schools on missions. The end of article is the attempt of the synthetic estimation of the commitment of Poles into the realization of salesian missionary program across the education at school within a period of Rua of father Rua.

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