The urn containing the relics of St. John Bosco arrived in Bolivia nearly midnight on Sunday, February 28, 2010, from the inspector of Manaus (Brazil). After a long and anxiously waited was received at the Viru Viru airport in Santa Cruz de la Sierra by a large delegation, among them were present bishop, Bishop Jesus Juarez of El Alto, Fr Inspector Juan Pablo Zabala, Sr. Inspector mother Carmen Elena Rivera, many Salesians, Daughters of Mary Help of Christians and other members of the Salesian Family, youth, children, teachers of the Salesian of Santa Cruz. Thus began his pilgrimage in Bolivia and the Inter-America tour of the region. 
Subsequently, by averaging the one in the morning, the urn containing the relics of St. John Bosco was transported with joy at Caritas College, carefully directed by the Sisters of Charity of Jesus that is two decades of educational work in our city.
The reception on the evening calm and warm Santa Cruz, has been enthusiastic by the eight young people who had the courage to wait for the "Saint of Youth." Screams and applause with warm words of welcome in the great coliseum of "Caritas" have been mixed at dances, with songs appropriate movements rightly interpreted by a large group of young Salesian Youth Movement.
Posted in downtown Coliseum, the Shrine of San Juan Bosco, assisted with the many parents, older students and their teachers, and the entire community of the Sisters of Charity of Jesus, the Bolivia first Holy Mass celebrated by Fr Jorge Milan, director of the Salesian "Miguel Magone."
A powerful enhancement to the stage that had become a temple for the successful ornaments flags and flowers with colors that gave a sense of pity and joy at once. Emotional words of greetings, welcome, welcome, have been discharged during those hours at night, which lasted until 7.00 am on the first day of the month that will walk all over Bolivia's urn San Juan Bosco.
Moved by the appropriate mobility, arrived at 7.30 am in the "Main House" Home, home to hundreds of orphaned children at high social risk. The applause and chants have been well prepared interrupted by fervent prayers for emotional words spoken with emotion by the Sisters, volunteers, educators and children, following a schedule prepared, well-adjusted lead times when high school for girls in the home.
All the girls were able to walk past the casket to see the close and holy to play with his right hand. Glass urn, and making a personal and intimate appeal to the Saint has been around young people in need and with them has begun his work in the distant land of Italy, in Turin, where he has his first work, where they the missionaries left for everyone, ranging from 132 countries with a total of more than 40,000 members of the various branches of the Salesian Family.
Then the big moment was official, because anticipated by patrolmen, the casket enters the dense central city of Santa Cruz, and with unexpected speed, he could easily enter the busy streets Monday in peak hours, to reach the 24 September Square, the heart of the city of Santa Cruz.
chiquitanos A group of three hundred, from the San Ignacio de Velasco, with traditional authorities and numerous students of Don Bosco College, have provided the official greeting of welcome, with so many, poetry, and drumming, then accompany the Holy Cathedral San Lorenzo de Santa Cruz.
Monsignor Sergio Gualberti, replacing Mr. Cardinal impossible, presided at the solemn celebration accompanied by an assortment of forty priests, the mayor of the city, guests of honor, directors of the forty units Popular Education School Don Bosco, and many students from various schools.
The two choirs Home "Main House" and San Ignacio de Velasco have solemnized the celebration that has been of special solemnity, and where there has been a highly innovative event: the educational promise the Directors, that in front of the urn of the great educator, have formalized a commitment to follow the same educational methods, with the enthusiasm and charisma of the Holy has her whole life youth, saying "My whole life is for you." Dr. Ana Maria Cáceres, ai Mayor of the city, has sought to give the official welcome on behalf of all citizens declaring Don Bosco, "Illustrious Guest" of our city, because it is the "great benefactor" of Santa Cruz, forty works by having their "spiritual children" in the fertile lands and Santa Cruz for many decades have led shelters, orphanages, schools, clinics, hospitals, workshops, and most constant attention to low-income population. Moved to the center
Hogar Don Bosco, Avenida Centenario, the shrine of Don Bosco has been lowering their mobility, to go a long way, driven by the teachers according to a preset turn and walking across the square "3 Mayo, in the San Carlos, Santa Cruz. Hundreds of young
educational units "Besucco Francisco, and" Shepherds of Fatima ", have your greeting with songs, hymns, cheering and waving their flags and they built, have been alternating emotional moments: the encounter of the work" Pinardi ceiling "in Junín Street with street children, then Hernando Sanabria Avenue, greeting P. Vincent, Superior of the Amigonian, the students of Colegio San Martín de Porrres, and then the words of the director Edda, on behalf of the entire primary.
Upon entering the arena of the play Don Bosco-Centennial, the urn has been welcomed by students in 1700, where Archbishop Tito Solari has celebrated Mass. Songs, words of enthusiasm, offering selected, animacantos by the leaders have taken three long hours they have spent in a "heartbeat" given the strong enthusiasm of youth and two hundred teachers who have renewed their pledge in front of the educational Don urn Bosco.
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