HISTORY OF THE SALESIAN WORK 
IN THE KONKAN REGION 
 
IMPORTANT DATES...
1946 A school and oratory are established at Panjim.
1947 A parish is established at Valpoi in Goa (but is closed down in 1976).
1948 Msgr. B. Martins donates a 20 acre plot to Msgr. Scuderi at Odxel.
1962 Mr. Umberto Mascarenhas donates his property at Sulcorna, Goa, to Msgr. Scuderi.
1971 The technical section of Panjim is shifted to Fatorda.
1972 January 31st, The Province of Bombay is officially erected.
1973 The technical school at Fatorda is established.
1984 A technical centre is established at Pinguli.
1985 Swami Premanand entrusts the Pope John XXIII High School, Quepem, to the Salesians.
1987 A youth animation centre is begun at Benaulim.
1987 A Salesian presence at Odxel is resumed.
1990 The school and parish of St. Francis Xavier, Tuem, are entrusted to the Salesians.
1991 An open school, boarding and youth centre are established at Sutgatti, Karnataka.
1994 A non-formal technical school is established at Loutolim, Goa.
1994 The pre-novitiate is shifted to Pinguli.
1995 A parish and school at Sirsi is entrusted to the Salesians.
1997 December 29th, The National Boscoree, is held at Sulcorna.
1998 The Chapter members submit a proposal for the division of the Province to the Rector Major.
1999 The Konkan Delegation is inaugurated and Fr. Romulo Noronha is appointed the Delegate.
1999 The New School is inaugurated at Oros.
1999 A new house is established at Trasi, Karnataka.
1999 A Youth Centre is established at Parra, Goa on a trial basis.
 
 
 
HOW GOD BROUGHT THE SALESIANS TO THE KONKAN REGION
Fr. Elias Diaz
(SDB West - Vol. XVII , Issue 2 Nov. - Dec. 1999)
 
 
HOW WONDERFUL THY WAYS, O LORD!
An eyewitness account of the first Salesian Presence in Goa
Fr. Giuseppe Moja
 (The MEMORY of the Salesian Province of Bombay - Provincial Information Office, 1998)
 
 
 
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