history of don bosco school

                      history  of  don  bosco  school

 

On November 23, 1894, three Salesians arrived in Valencia: Fr. Félix Andrés Bergeretti and two seminarians. The population received them with enthusiasm. Father Bergeretti rented a house on the corner of “El Vapor”, and began the pastoral activity of the Festive Oratory, while announcing the immediate opening of the Don Bosco School, which took place at the beginning of 1895. Almost at the same time, the shoemaking, tailoring and printing workshops, they organized the music band and even added the Night School to the School for workers and young employees.

 

Six months after its opening, the Don Bosco School already had 200 students enrolled, which forced the Salesians to establish themselves in a larger house, the current headquarters.

 

As a result of a virulent epidemic, in February 1898, they had to temporarily close the College and assist the sick. The scourge undermined the city of Valencia and Father Bergeretti promised the Virgin Help of Christians to build a sanctuary for her if that scourge stopped. Once the grace was obtained, Father Bergeretti fulfilled the promise and began the construction of the sanctuary. The men's incomprehension forced Father Bergeretti to leave Venezuela. In 1909 he died in Oakland (California), remembering Valencia “where I left my heart,” as he wrote to his friends.

 

With Father Isaías Ojeda being director, the “Domingo Savio” Free School was founded, which over time would be moved to the El Concejo neighborhood of the same city. With Father Ricardo Alterio, the construction of the new sanctuary in honor of Mary Help of Christians began, which was consecrated by Monsignor José Alí Lebrún, Bishop of Valencia, on January 29, 1967. The Don Bosco School of Valencia has been for the city an educational center open to all social classes, at the service of the Valencian community. In addition, young people from different parts of the country have studied there as interns. The School has provided all the services of the entire educational cycle: Basic and Diversified and also, Education for Work.

 

But the Don Bosco School has also been a point of reference and center of animation culturally, educationally and religiously. There have been thousands of Venezuelans who have found a place in the Salesian School and there they have forged their spirit for the struggle and for the construction of a more just, more prosperous and more supportive country.

 

The presence of Salesian alumni and cooperators in teaching and pastoral animation constitutes a very characteristic feature of this College which, on the other hand, has given very valuable vocations to the Salesian Congregation.

biography of don bosco

 

Juan was born in I Becchi (Italy) on August 16, 1815. His mother, Margaret, was married to Francisco, who had been widowed and had a son named Antonio. When Juan was only 2 years old, his father died and the family began to experience serious economic difficulties, but above all, relationship difficulties since Antonio was envious of Juan.

 

At the age of 9, Juan had a prophetic dream that marked his entire life: he would be a shepherd and guide of the most needy children and young people. He therefore had to study and prepare well and, as there were many difficulties at home, he had to look for work in a nearby town. There, he was able to alternate his work in the field and stable with study and prayer. Later, in 1829, Don Calosso, (Murialdo's chaplain) offered himself as his first Latin teacher and his first spiritual guide, but he died suddenly in November 1830. Juan, aware of the mission he would have among the young people, spared no effort. effort to be able to continue with their studies. He walks 20 kilometers a day, lives as a pensioner in the house of a local tailor and musician, learns multiple trades to earn his bread... sleeps under a ladder and works as a workshop apprentice, waiter, stable employee, etc. This strong vocational concern pushed him to found the Society of Joy with his friends,... to enter the Seminary... and, in 1841, to be ordained a priest. Your dream is coming true! Now he can dedicate himself fully to the young people most in need!

 

The Salesian Society began in 1854, to ensure the stability of its works and its spirit in the future. But who is going to dedicate themselves to the poorest girls and young women?... We do not know to what extent the situation of abandonment in which the girls and young women lived in that society worried D. Bosco. What is certain is that the issue worried and occupied him... He wanted to found a female congregation that would take care of girls and considered the meeting in 1862 with D. Pestarino (parish priest of Mornés) to be providential; He told him about the existence of a group of young people who carried out a workshop and an oratory with the girls and young women of his town. We know that D. Pestarino spoke especially to him about the young woman, María Mazzarello.

 

When Don Bosco went to Mornés, in 1864, he discovered for himself that this young woman, Maria Mazzarello, was doing with the girls and young people of Mornés the same thing that he was doing with the boys and young people in Turin. María, for her part, states that “D. Bosco's words were like the echo of a voice that she felt in her heart, without knowing how to express it; like the translation of his own feelings; as something always expected and that finally arrived” and expresses “Don Bosco is a saint, and I feel it.”

 

Thus, in 1872, Don Bosco, with Maria Mazzarello, founded the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians.

 

The first missionary expedition left for Argentina in 1875 and was made up of Salesians and Daughters of Mary Help of Christians. In this same year, the Cooperators were born, considered by Don Bosco as "External Salesians".

 

Don Bosco died on January 31, 1888, was beatified by Pope Pius XI on June 2, 1929 and declared a saint on April 1, 1934.

  Biografia de Don Bosco

 

 

Don Bosco Valencia School Band

cultural heritage

 

Founded in 1896, the “Don Bosco” Show School Band is the oldest in the state of Carabobo and Venezuela, being recognized as Artistic and Cultural Heritage of said region in 2008, which is why it displays the Order “Battle of Carabobo” in its first class as a Centenary Band, as well as the recognition of the City of Valencia Order.

 

The “Don Bosco” School Show Band bases its precepts on the integral legacy of San Juan Bosco “good Christians, honest citizens”, with a view to developing the individual and group potential of the youth that makes up its ranks                               .Banda show

 

Among his most significant recent participations are: the celebration of the arrival of the Salesians to Venezuela, held at the Poliedro de Caracas; It is considered a guest band for life at the International Sun Fair (Edo. Mérida) and winner of 1st Place in the National Band contest at the 2010 Valencia Carnival. In 2011 it won the Binational Band Contest held in Viterbo (Colombia), carried out on the occasion of the centenary of said city.

 

This year he has had outstanding performances at the Industrial Games of the City of Valencia and the Band Festival at the Maestranza César Girón in Maracay.

 

The band participated in the Binational Marching Band Competition of Villa del Rosario (Colombia) in the month of November 2014.