Welcome to the Salesian Vice Province ZMB
The First Missionaries
On 12 th October 1982, the first Salesians arrived in Zambia under the leadership of Fr. Casmir Cichecki. They were: Fr. Joseph Bem, Fr. John Bernas, Fr. Peter Boryczka, Fr. Paul Dziatkiewicz, Fr. Tadeusz Molendowski, Fr. Stanislaw Juszczyk, Fr. Eugene Szmyt, Fr. Henry Sak, Fr. Louis Karczewski, Fr. Joseph Ojczyk and Stanislaw Jagodzinski, a seminarian.
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Get the latest news from our Province. Learn more about the lives of various Salesian Saints. Dive into Salesian spirituality. And learn what’s happening in the Order throughout the rest of the world.
Become a Salesian
Do you feel God may be calling you to religious life? Are you willing to allow God to use you as His instrument? Do you desire to journey with young people toward Christ? If so, you may be called to religious life.
Our Founder
John Bosco was born at Castelnuovo d’Asti on 16 August 1815, to a family of peasant farmers. His father, Francis Bosco, died when John was just two, and Margaret Occhiena found herself bringing up Anthony, Joseph, and John alone.
With firm kindness and unbounded faith Margaret, a wise educator that she was, made her family into a domestic church.
From when he was small, John began to feel a desire to become a priest. he spoke of having had a dream at nine years of age, which revealed to him his mission: “Make yourself humble, strong and robust”, a woman resplendent as the sun told him, “and what you see happening to these wolves which change into lambs, you will do for my children. I will be your teacher. In time you will understand”. While still a lad, John began to do magic tricks, learned with hard effort, for his friends, and he alternated this with work and prayer.
The elderly Fr Calosso started him off with his studies for the priesthood, studies that cost him effort, to the point where he had to leave home because of his brother anthony’s opposition. He wanted John to work in the fields.