BERKELEY: 21st January 2005 --  With the Feast of St Francis de Sales just a few days away (Monday coming), Salesians would be interested in following up the Oblates of St Francis de Sales (OSFS) website, and in particular the work of the International Commission on Salesian Studies (ICSS): www.franz-von-sales.de .  The site might have a German address but it is also available in English.

    Within that site you can click on 'Francis de Sales in Art' and there find a wonderful picture gallery of images of St. Francis de Sales assembled by Fr Valdir Formentini OSFS.  Images are in both colour and black and white and include statues, stained-glass windows, relics, Saleisan sites and so forth.

    The bringer of these glad tidings has been Fr Joe Boenzi SUO (no, not a breakaway Salesian group, just the Western USA province!) who has been closely involved with the work of the ICSS over a number of years, and makes consistent efforts to remind the SDB element of the wider Salesian Family, that based directly on St Francis de Sales himself, of developments in the study of our Congregational Patron Saint.