History
In 1887 the Ecuador government signed an agreement with Don Bosco for the Salesians to take under their responsibility the Catholic Protectorate of Arts and Trades in Quito. Ecuador was the first one of the non-European countries to receive the children of the educator saint of Turin; the first was Argentina in 1877.
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