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Michael Ribotta |
Tough love is not the answer- Don Bosco's views on punishment |
...our essay we shall examine the meaning and application of "punishment" and "discipline" as found in Don Bosco's educational writings. It was a subject to which he returned time and time again-and for good reas... |
1843 - 1883 |
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Arthur Lenti |
Don Bosco's love affair with "poor and abandoned" young people and the beginnings of the oratory |
...icular, restricting the field of inquiry, I will focus on the young people who were protagonists in Don Bosco's work at its origin. After a brief description of the social world of certain categories of you... |
1840 - 1862 |
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Joseph Boenzi |
Paolo Albera's visits during Don Bosco's last illness |
...y did "Paolino" Albera not come to Turin during those final days of January 1888? Why was he not at Don Bosco's bedside? How did the death of his spiritual father and mentor impact on him? We can gain some ... |
1852 - 1892 |
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Arthur Lenti |
Don Bosco's last years, his last illness and saintly death from eyewitness accounts |
...s and memoirs authored by Salesians close to the saint. The Biographical Memoirs and other Lives of Don Bosco, reliable though they be, do not generally convey that sense of immediacy and the direct perception... |
1884 - 1888 |
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Michael Ribotta |
The Roman Letter of 1884 and its aftermath |
...In retrospect, one can appreciate why Don Bosco had become so distraught by the message that was played out in his dream (reverie?) during his Roma... |
1884 - 1927 |
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Mary Treacy |
Mother Marie-Louise-Angelique Clarac and Don Bosco - an idea matures |
...ute About Sr. Clarac's Testament Bishop Moreno's Advice Separation PART II Mother Clarac and Don Bosco Style of Education Mother Clarac - the Foundation Stone of Don Bosco's New Congregation? April... |
1817 - 1887 |
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Arthur Lenti |
The Bosco-Gastaldi conflict (1872-82), Part II |
...: (1) 1874-1877 (the last years of Pius IX's pontificate) during which, albeit with some ambiguity, Don Bosco seemed to hold the advantage; and (2) 1878-1882 (the first years of Leo XIII) during which Gastaldi... |
1872 - 1882 |
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Michael Ribotta |
Don Bosco's history of Italy: a morality play or an exercise in history? |
..."If Don Bosco during his student years had one special preference, it was for reading history," noted Father Albe... |
1845 - 1859 |
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Arthur Lenti |
The Bosco-Gastaldi Conflict (1872-82), Part I |
...The conflict between Archbishop Lawrence Gastaldi and Don Bosco may at first sight appear to have been, to put a facile contemporary label on it, a typical confron... |
1872 - 1882 |
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Michael Ribotta, Natale Cerrato |
EXPO' 84 and Don Bosco's peerless-to- paper-to-print presentation |
...Turin's EXPO '84 was to become the bittersweet culmination of Don Bosco's remarkable and varied career as publisher, author, and printer. For almost 40 years he had been ... |
1860 - 1884 |
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Michael Ribotta |
Training boys to earn a living: the beginnings of vocational education at the oratory |
...Don Bosco's biographer, Father John Baptist Lemoyne, notes that most of the boys who attended Don Bosco's eve... |
1844 - 1862 |
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Arthur Lenti |
Don Bosco's Missionary Dreams (Part II) |
...eams, with interpretative comments. Contents: Prefatory Note Introduction Part One: Don Bosco's Fourth and Fifth Missionary Dreams I. Context of the Fourth and Fifth Missionary Dreams II. T... |
1885 - 1886 |
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Arthur Lenti |
Don Bosco's missionary dreams (Part I) |
...In this issue, after a general introduction, we will discuss the First Missionary Dream, expressing Don Bosco's original option for the missions; and then, the two "South American" missionary dreams, projectin... |
1871 - 1885 |
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Jack Ayers |
The "Salesianity" that wins all hearts |
...The reader may be surprised to learn that at the first canonical assembly of Salesians, Don Bosco was equating fidelity to our Society with the broad road of "Salesianity" mapped out in such a huma... |
1835 - 1877 |
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Michael Ribotta |
Hero or villain: Don Bosco as seen in the press of his time |
...One spring day in 1860 Don Bosco was startled by a newsvendor's cry. "Read all about it! Don Bosco in jail!" He was both amused and ... |
1848 - 1888 |
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Arthur Lenti |
The Convitto Ecclesiastico - "Where one learnt to be a priest" |
...Don Bosco then goes on to describe the nature and purpose of the Convitto. It was a kind of ' finishing schoo... |
1814 - 1882 |
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Michael Ribotta |
Don Bosco's venture into popular education-The Gentleman's Almanac |
...When New Year's Day dawned in Turin in 1854, the subscribers to Don Bosco's Catholic Readings (Letture Cattoliche) were in for a pleasant andunexpected surprise. Each sub... |
1854 - 1879 |
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Arthur Lenti |
"The most wonderful day of my life"-The sesquicentennial of Don Bosco' s ordination remembered |
...This paper will survey that period in Don Bosco's life that saw him ordained a priest. It will not be a study of Don Bosco the priest. At the ri... |
1841 - 1991 |
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Arthur Lenti |
Don Bosco's vocation - mission dreams |
...Don Bosco's vocation dreams hold an important place in Don Bosco's vocational development and in the process ... |
1824 - 1884 |
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Michael Ribotta |
The day they shut down the oratory school |
...On June 30, 1879, after numerous attempts to stave off the inevitable, Don Bosco was finally compelled to shut down his oratory school in Valdocco. As a consequence more than 30... |
1855 - 1879 |
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Richard Wanner |
Don Bosco's gift to the Church: a spirituality for youth |
... schoolboys? While exact answers are always difficult to obtain, we can at least find some hints in Don Bosco's boyhood experiences in his years of study at the Convitto in Turin, and in the religious climate ... |
1815 - 1888 |
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Michael Ribotta |
'The road not taken"--The Salesians' circuitous road to North America |
...In the fall of 1870, for reasons that have never been documented, Don Bosco did not answer Archbishop Joseph Alemany's invitation to travel the El Camino Real in the land of E... |
1850 - 1884 |
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Arthur Lenti |
Don Bosco's Boswell: John Baptist Lemoyne-the man and his work |
... Biographical Sketch Early Years Seminary Formation and Priestly Ordination Meeting with Don Bosco One Year with Don Bosco and Perpetual Profession Director of the Salesian School at Lanzo (1865-1... |
1839 - 1916 |
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John Itzaina |
"My Charitable Mademoiselle" |
...ntazione" to the Fourth Volume of the Epistolario de S. Giovanni Bosco, states, that the letters of Don Bosco are not letters of ideas but of matters both spiritual and temporal. He writes that what is stri... |
1832 - 1885 |
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Arthur Lenti |
The earliest biographies of Don Bosco and their english translations |
...Therefore, all early biography on Don Bosco, including Fr. Lemoyne's and his successors', should be approached with the right understanding of ... |
1881 - 1924 |
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Michael Ribotta |
Don Bosco's battle against illiteracy |
...in this article M. Ribotta explains Don Bosco's commitment to promoting education in Turin. ... |
1844 - 1923 |
