These are not just numbers on a list; they are 175 stories of people who faced doubts, joys, and challenges, and chose to respond ‘yes’ to God’s love in the playground, classroom, family, in mission lands, on  sickbeds and in times of persecution. Among them we find men and women, young people and adults, consecrated and lay people, bishops and missionaries who, in different historical, cultural, and social contexts in time and space, have made the Gospel of joy and the charism of Don Bosco shine with a unique light. Their example is not a treasure to be kept only for ourselves; it is a luminous gift for the whole Church, a message of hope for the whole world, as Pope Leo XIV said when he canonised seven new saints on 19October  2025, including Maria Troncatti, Daughter of Mary Help of Christians: ‘They are luminous signs of hope for all of us because they offered their lives in the love of Christ and their brothers and sisters.’

The Dossier, the Postulator General for the Causes of Saints of the Salesian Family, Fr. Pierluigi Cameroni, recalls after reporting the list and status of each Cause, presents the events of 2025, among which the following stand out: 17 May 2025, in Chambéry (France), the Beatification of Venerable Camillo Costa De Beauregard, diocesan priest born in Chambéry on 17 February 1841, and died there on 25 March 1910; the canonisation on 19 October 2025, by Pope Leo XIV, of Blessed Maria Troncatti (1883-1969), Daughter of Mary Help of Christians, missionary, mother, artisan of peace and reconciliation.

At the end of the Dossier there is a reminder of the commitment to spread knowledge, imitation, and intercession of the members of the Salesian Family who are candidates for sainthood, valuing and caring for the various aspects: liturgical-celebratory, spiritual, pastoral, ecclesial, educational, cultural, historical, social, missionary…

Here you can download the Postulation Dossier – in Italian, English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese – updated as of 31 December 2025. You can also download the Poster of the Holiness of the Salesian Family 2025 designed and created by Fr Pierluigi Lanotte from the Social Communication Sector.