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The Instituto Salesiano, a school run by the Salesian Society of Bauhaus in Macau, was also the society's first school in the Far East. In 1906, at the invitation of bishop Paulino of the Catholic diocese of Macau, the Salesian Church, headquartered in Italy, sent father Luigi Versiglia to Macau to preach and run a school. Father Luigi Versiglia set sail from Italy to Macau in the same year and started Salesian society's career in China. Father Luigi Versiglia initially in a two floors tall wooden building, opened a "virgin Mary without original sin" named orphanage. The number of students continued to rise, and the school buildings were unable to fulfill needs. Thanks to the bishop's decision, the building, located at Rua de S. Lourenco No.16, had been designated as a new school building. The building had a low wall in front and four sets of twin columns on each side of the main door, a total of 16 columns. The building was owned by the East India Company in the 19th century. Later, the building and its location were repossessed by the government of Macau. The Catholic diocese of Macau gave the building to the priest, and the first Salesian school in the Far East was established, the college of sinless craftsmanship.

 

In 1910, in order to enable students learn skills to make a living, the school began to set up woodworking, sewing, footwear, typesetting, printing, nailing and other six craft courses, as a vocational school. In 1932, it was expanded into a full secondary school (form 1 to form 5). Due to the expansion, the sixteen columns were dismantled before 1935. In 1952, it was renamed Salesian high school after the same name as the Portuguese school, which is still in use today.

 

Although Instituto Salesiano is more than hundred years, it should have many history and memory for students or communities. Actually, people don’t have special memory for it and they think that it’s not important. So that in the graph, it shows the memory and history in the middle range. It shows that this building does not acquire high value for memory and history among communities which implies that this building hasn’t value for keep it and it can easily to remove it.

慈幼中學（Instituto Salesiano）為鮑思高慈幼會在澳門所開辦的一所學校，亦是該會在遠東地區的第一所學校。1906年，總部設在意大利的鮑思高慈幼會應當時天主教澳門教區鮑理諾主教之邀請，派遣雷鳴道神父（Luigi Versiglia）到澳門傳教辦學。雷鳴道神父於同年乘船從意大利出發到澳門，開始慈幼會在中國的事業。雷鳴道神父最初在一所兩層高的木樓房，開辦了一間以「聖母無原罪」命名的孤兒院。由於入學人數不斷上升，校舍入不敷出。主教撥出位於風順堂街16號的洋房作為新校舍，因為該建築門前有一列矮牆，正門兩旁各有四對孖柱，合共十六條柱，故有「十六柱」之稱。此建築在十九世紀為東印度公司所有，後來該建築及其所位處之地段被澳葡政府收回，澳門總督轉而批示將之撥予天主教澳門教區使用。天主教澳門教區就將此建築贈予神父，於是遠東慈幼會首所學校便開辦了起來，這所學校名為無原罪工藝學院。

 

1910年，為了當年的學生習得一手技藝謀生，這所學校開始成立木工、縫紉、革履、排版、印刷、釘裝等6項工藝課程，成為一所職業學校。1932年開始擴辦為完整的中學(中一至中五)。由於擴建的原因，十六柱在1935年前就被拆卸了。再易名為慈幼中學，並沿用至今。

雖然慈幼中學已經有百年歷史，對於學生和社區應該會有很多歷史和回憶，但在訪問之後，得出的這個圖表卻說明了，歷史和回憶數據都在中間值，不高不低，說明了人們覺得這所學校建築物，對於他們都沒有什麼特別，只是覺得很普通。連保留的價值都沒有，隨時都可以拆卸。