# What does Salesianum mean? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 4, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-salesianum-mean/462074 "2008-09-04T22:44:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-salesianum-mean/462074/1 "2008-09-04T22:44:58Z")
Is it a term for catholic schools or other institutions? I think maybe it is a school to teach priests. Maybe it teaches catholic teachers. It’s in the title of a picture The Salesianum in the Proximity of Milwaukee. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-salesianum-mean/462074/2 "2008-09-04T22:50:09Z")
[From Wikipedia:](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesianum) > [@](#): > > Salesianum (Latin for “House of Sales”, referring to St. Francis de Sales) was founded in 1903 and is operated by the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales. (That’s the one in Delaware, BTW, but I bet it always means the same thing.) ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-salesianum-mean/462074/3 "2008-09-04T23:03:37Z")
Pronounced “Sails” or Sallies?" ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-salesianum-mean/462074/4 "2008-09-04T23:08:36Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > Pronounced “Sails” or Sallies?" It’s pronounced as in ‘sails’ – the nickname for Salesianum High School in Delaware is Sallies, though. I usually have a handful of Sallies boys in my university classes every semester. I went there for a history class when I was in my last year in high school, as my school (all girls) and Sallies (all boys) exchanged a few morning classes. ---
**Author:** ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-salesianum-mean/462074/5 "2008-09-05T00:36:27Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s pronounced as in ‘sails’ – the nickname for Salesianum High School in Delaware is Sallies, though. I usually have a handful of Sallies boys in my university classes every semester. > > I went there for a history class when I was in my last year in high school, as my school (all girls) and Sallies (all boys) exchanged a few morning classes. Who is this? ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-salesianum-mean/462074/6 "2008-09-05T02:50:07Z")
> [@Mongo\_Ponton](#): > > Who is this? ? If you mean who wrote what you’ve quoted, it’s me, Ms Boods. If you’re asking me to provide my real-life name on the message board though, I’d prefer not to do that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-salesianum-mean/462074/7 "2008-09-05T04:26:32Z")
Uh, it was a joke Ms. Boods. Go Raiders! ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-salesianum-mean/462074/8 "2008-09-05T08:11:08Z")
I’m interpreting that it’s just a term used by a specific group of Catholics to refer to any schools teaching their doctrine. Feel free to correct this if that’s wrong, but explain it better. Thanks for the help people. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-salesianum-mean/462074/9 "2008-09-05T08:55:50Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > I’m interpreting that it’s just a term used by a specific group of Catholics to refer to any schools teaching their doctrine. Feel free to correct this if that’s wrong, but explain it better. > > Thanks for the help people. Not quite. The Salesianums is the (unfought-nickname, IIRC, rather than the actual) name of an order founded by Saint Francis of Sales and dedicated to teaching; by extension, a member of the order, worker in one of their schools, student of alumnus. They don’t teach any specific doctrine; neither do Jesuits or Boschs, but of course the underlying philosophy of each Order leads to different teaching methods and so forth. ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2008, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-salesianum-mean/462074/10 "2008-09-05T11:11:00Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > The Salesianums is the (unfought-nickname, IIRC, rather than the actual) name of an order founded by Saint Francis of Sales… Not quite. ‘Salesianum’ refers specifically to the schools. The usual word in English for the various orders associated with de Sales - most of which were actually founded in the nineteenth century - is ‘Salesian’.