{"id":5310,"date":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.feedburner.com:\/\/bff980d6a0907afb7a4559af6a1b77a5"},"modified":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"don-boscos-relic-arriving-in-manipur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/1999\/11\/29\/don-boscos-relic-arriving-in-manipur\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Bosco`s relic arriving in  Manipur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_product='wpp-252';<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js#pubid=kanglaonline\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>IMPHAL, April 28: Manipur will be the country&rsquo;s first state to receive the casket containing the relic of Saint John Bosco &ndash; popularly known as Don Bosco at Imphal airport on April 29.<br \/> It will be received by the friends and followers of Don Bosco and official functions will be held at Little Flower School Imphal and Don Bosco School Langjing on April 29.&nbsp; It will be taken to Don Bosco Tamenglong on 30th and the official function to honour the great friend of youth will be held in Don Bosco Chingmeoirong on May 1.<br \/> On May 2 the relic will be taken to Pangmol, Maram, Mao en route to Kohima, Wokha, Mon, Dimapur etc in Nagaland.<br \/> The relic inside the casket is the skeleton of the right hand of Don Bosco, which is inserted in the chest of Don Bosco&rsquo;s statue.<br \/> The casket with the relic of Don Bosco, which began a 130-nation pilgrimage on January 31, 2009, will be taken to different Salesian institutions in the North-East during its two months&rsquo; tour in the region.<br \/> The relic will also be carried to various centres in Moran, Doomdooma, Tinsukia, Naharkatia, Amguri, Jorhat, Dergaon and later to Guwahati and other Salesian institutions in the region.<br \/> The pilgrimage is part of the preparation for the 2015 bicentenary of Don Bosco&rsquo;s birth and also to mark the 150th year of the founding of the Salesian congregation.<br \/> The casket began its journey on April 25, 2009, from Italy&rsquo;s Valdocco, Turin, in the Basilica of &lsquo;Mary Help of Christians&rsquo; and is set to cross five continents, where Salesian members are serving the youth in particular.<br \/> Salesians of Don Bosco, the congregation founded by Don Bosco, have schools, colleges, vocational training institutes and social organizations spread in the entire North-East.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~4\/m0dqgZmFq8U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~3\/m0dqgZmFq8U\/\">http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Kanglaonline\/~3\/m0dqgZmFq8U\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMPHAL, April 28: Manipur will be the country&#8217;s first state to receive the casket containing the relic of Saint John Bosco &#8211; popularly known as Don Bosco at Imphal airport&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2011\/04\/don-boscos-relic-arriving-in-manipur\/\">Read more <span>&#187;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[330,41],"class_list":["post-5310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kanglaonline","category-news","tag-kanglaonline-2","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}