Abstract

Don Bosco entered in history as the outstanding educator and the great worshipper of Our Lady. In his educational-pastoral activity the education and the piety of the Virgin Mary interlocked into one trend of the service to the young man, for keeps enrolling into proposed by him the preventive system. A special example of this phenomenon is the „Society of Immaculate”. Its history is a good illustration of the influence of the piety of the Virgin Mary on the upbringing of the young people. The present article I show first the genesis of the rising „Society of Immaculate”, and afterwards his activity among pupils of Don Bosco in the Oratory on Valdocco. In conclusion it makes an attempt indications of results pedagogic and pastoral activity of „Society of Immaculate” which for keeps enrolled in the Salesian educational proposal. They are among them: the faith into apostolic possibilities of young people, additionally valuing of the dimension of association in the upbringing, the consolidation of the consciousness of the vocation, the induration of renewed vision of the piety of the Virgin Mary.