Fr Vincent Cimatti SDB led the first Salesian expedition to Japan. He did a fantastic service as pioneer and then as Provincial in that country. Today, he is a Servant of God.
Before going to Japan as a missionary, Fr Cimatti was the rector of a well-known junior college in North Italy. The incident I am going to mention happened in that college.
On what we call “college day” or school day, with a large crowd present, one of the outgoing students had been appointed to give a speech. What he did shocked everyone. He went up, and stood on the stage and criticized the Salesians in public. There was pin-drop silence in the hall and much uneasiness. Everyone’s eyes went to Fr Cimatti, since he was the head of the institution. They wondered what he would do.
This is what Fr Cimatti did.
Fr Joe Mannath SDB
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