Tunis, 21 February, 2021 / 1:00 pm (ACI Africa).
A book in memory of Fr. Marek Rybinski, a Polish member of the Religious Institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB) who was murdered in Tunisia ten years ago is a tribute to not only his work but also to the Tunisians for their fraternity to the missionaries, SDB leadership has said.
In the Wednesday, February 17 report, SDB leadership says the editor of the book and the donors who facilitated its publication want the memoir “to be a tribute not only to the missionary and to his sacrifice made for love of God and the recipients of his mission, but also to the welcome and fraternity that Tunisians have always shown to the children of Don Bosco and their presence in Tunisia.”
Published under the title, “Come Mai? Un Salesiano Prete in Tunisia” (How come? A Salesian Priest in Tunisia), the book is a collection of Fr. Rybinski's “own writings and memoirs which had previously been published in Polish,” SDB officials say in the report obtained by ACI Africa.
Set to be launched Thursday, February 18, the book is part of three-day activities that SDB members, people of God in Tunisia and the Muslim friends of the missionaries engaged in to mark the tenth anniversary of the death of Fr. Rybinski.
On February 16, members of the St. John Bosco-founded Religious Institute in Tunisia held the tenth memorial of their confrere at the Cathedral of St. Vincent de Paul, Tunis.