{{Infobox newspaper | name = The Salesian Bulletin | image = | caption = | type = Monthly bulletin | format = Different formats for every edition | founded = 1877 | owners = The Salesian Congregation | publisher = Salesian provinces | editor = Salesian Family | language = 29 languages | headquarters = In 135 countries | oclc = | ISSN = | website = }}
'''''The Salesian Bulletin''''' is an official publication<ref name="Ceria, The Biographic Memoirs, Vol. XIII, page 61">{{Cite book|title=The Bibliographical Memoirs of Saint John Bosco, volume XIII (1877 - 1878) |last=Ceria |first=Eugenio |author2=Diego Borgatello |year=1983 |publisher=Salesiana Publisher |location=New Rochelle, New York |isbn=0-89944-013-4 |page=61}}</ref> of the Salesians that was founded in August 1877 by Don Bosco. It has been published without interruption since then. The purpose of the ''Salesian Bulletin'' is the proliferation of the educational works of Don Bosco all over the world. As for 2010, the Bulletin was published in 56 different editions and 29 languages for 135 countries.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://homepage.eircom.net/~sdbmedia/bulletin/sdb_bull_world.htm |title=The Salesian Bulletin |publisher=Eircom, Dublin |access-date=5 May 2010}}</ref>
==Purpose== The ''Salesian Bulletin'' was established by Don Bosco. It was linked initially with the foundation of the Association of Salesian Cooperators and the first Salesian missionaries in the Americas. Don Bosco intended that the Bulletin, as the official publication of the Salesian Congregation, "will link Salesians and cooperators."<ref name="Ceria, The Biographic Memoirs, Vol. XIII, page 61"/>
==History== The ''Salesian Bulletin'' comes from a former experience that Don Bosco had in having his own publication. Although the researchers never found a copy, it traced a second issue by August 1875 named ''Bibliofilo Cattolico'' (''The Catholic Booklover'') that was printed in the Oratory Press of Don Bosco. The ''Catholic Booklover'' was dedicated to late vocations.<ref name="The Biographical Memoirs, Volume XIII">{{Cite book|title=The Bibliographical Memoirs of Saint John Bosco, volume XIII (1877 - 1878) |last=Ceria |first=Eugenio |author2=Diego Borgatello |year=1983 |publisher=Salesiana Publisher |location=New Rochelle, New York |isbn=0-89944-013-4 |page=191}}</ref> The first editions were published in Italian, but it will be soon not just translated by edited in several languages between the 19th and 20th century.
===Expansion=== In August 1877, Don Bosco did a transformation of the ''Bibliofilo Cattolico'' to ''Monthly Salesian Bulletin'' (''Bollettino Salesiano Mensile''). The fact that Don Bosco numbered it as 5 and volume 3, proved the continuity with the ''Bibliofilo''.<ref name="The Biographical Memoirs, Volume XIII"/>
The first language was French, followed by Spanish in 1886. Don Bosco died early 1888 and the continuity of the publication passed to his successors.
''Year country and language of the expansion of the Salesian Bulletin'':
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left;" |- ! Country ! Language ! Year ! Notes |- |{{Flag icon|Italy}} Italy |Italian |1877<ref name="The Biographical Memoirs, Volume XIII"/> | Founded directly by Don Bosco in Turin. |- | {{Flag icon|France}} France | French | 1879<ref name="eircom.net">{{Cite web|url=http://homepage.eircom.net/~sdbmedia/bulletin/sdb_bull_world.htm |title=The Salesian Bulletin in the World |publisher=eircom, Ireland |access-date=6 May 2010}}</ref> | |- | {{Flag icon|Spain}} Spain | Spanish | 1886<ref name="eircom.net"/> | The Bulletin was distributed also in Latin America. |- |{{Flag icon|England}} England |English |1892<ref name="eircom.net"/> |- |{{Flag icon|Germany}} Germany |German |1895<ref name="eircom.net"/> | |- |{{Flag icon|Poland}} Poland |Polish |1897<ref name="eircom.net"/> | |- |{{Flag icon|Portugal}} Portugal | Portuguese | 1902<ref name="eircom.net"/> | |- |{{Flag icon|Hungary}} Hungary | Hungarian | 1903<ref name="eircom.net"/> | |- |{{Flag icon|Slovenia}} Slovenia | Slovenian | 1907<ref name="eircom.net"/> | |- |{{Flag icon|Lithuania}} Lithuania | Lithuanian | 1927<ref name="eircom.net"/> | |- |}
===1878 controversy with Archbishop Gastaldi=== In May 1878, a controversy began between Don Bosco and the Archbishop of Turin, Lawrence Gastaldi, when Gastaldi prohibited a campaign to gather funds for the construction of Saint John the Evangelist church that was made by the ''Salesian Bulletin'' in May 1878. Gastaldi saw the project of Don Bosco as opposed to the construction of other church dedicated to late Pope Pius IX.<ref name="Ceria, MB, Volume XII, pags. 445-465">{{Cite book|title=The Bibliographical Memoirs of Saint John Bosco, volume XIII (1877 - 1878) |last=Ceria |first=Eugenio |author2=Diego Borgatello |year=1983 |publisher=Salesiana Publisher |location=New Rochelle, New York |isbn=0-89944-013-4 |pages=445–465 }}</ref> The ''Salesian Bulletin'' published an article on April, ''The Salesian Cooperators to the Everlasting Memory of the Great Pius IX'' (the Pope who died in February 1878), appealing to the charity of the Salesian cooperators to support the project.
In a letter signed by Cardinal Alexander Franchi, the Archbishop communicated to Don Bosco that he was going to build a church in honor of the deceased Pope and, therefore, "''a dual appeal to Christian charity for one and the same purpose seems inadvisable''".<ref name="Ceria, MB, Volume XII, pags. 445-465"/>
Don Bosco answered to the Cardinal that the appeal was not for the faithful but for the Salesian cooperators and that it was published in Sampierdarena and not in Turin, being, therefore, under the authority of the Archbishop of Genoa. The answer of Don Bosco was contested by the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars where he was prohibited to continue with the project of the new church.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}
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