The Tour which started from Valdocco, Turin ( Mother House of the Salesians of Don Bosco ), 25th April 2009 in preparation for bi-centenary of Don Bosco’s birth in 2015 (16 August), will arrive on 1st May in Dimapur province northeast India, the province of the rising sun!May 1st, this year is most auspicious. Besides being Worker’s Day, it is also the Divine Mercy Sunday and pope John Paul II’s beatification day in Rome.
The bones of the right hand of Don Bosco ( relic of St John Bosco ) contained in a casket weighs about 850 kilos, who died in Turin, 31 January 1888.
The casket containing Don Bosco Relics will reach Kolkata by flight and will be transferred immediately to a connecting flight to Imphal for the grand reception and India tour launch scheduled for 1st May 2011. It will travel 11 Salesian provinces spread out in the Indian sub-continent and Sri Lanka where it will make a pilgrim tour till 30 November 2011.
The pilgrimage covering some 130 countries is expected to end in Turin in August 2014. The bicentennial of St. John Bosco’s birth in Castelnuovo D’Asti, near Turin, will be celebrated with major events in 2015.
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1) MOURUNG EXPRESS newspaper
Relics of St John Bosco to reach Dimapur on May 1
MorungExpress
The casket containing Don Bosco Relics will reach Kolkata by flight and
will be ... for the grand reception and India pilgrimage launch scheduled
for May 1, ...
2) NAGALAND POST newspaper
Don Bosco relics to arrive India in 50 days - State - Nagaland Post
DB Relics Pilgrimage India The casket containing Don Bosco Relics would
reach Kolkata by flight and will be transferred immediately to a connecting
flight ...
http://www.nagalandpost.com/ShowStory.aspx?npoststoryiden=UzEwMzg1ODI%3D-MSl4JJQiwak%3D
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