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.
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 by which his lifework was determined and specified.
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Richard Wanner – Don Bosco’s gift to the Church: a spirituality for youth
St. John Bosco (1815-1888) was a product of Piedmont in northern Italy. His seventy-two years spanned a time of industrialization in Turin and other major cities and the complexities of Italian unification. Despite an often harsh anti-clerical atmosphere and the volatile political situation , a number of saints rose to prominence in nineteenth century Piedmont.
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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.
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Arthur Lenti – Don Bosco’s Boswell: John Baptist Lemoyne-the man and his work
Part I will present a biographical sketch of the man; Part II will deal with the sources and the editorial history of the Biographical Memoirs; and Part III will inquire into the historical criteria and into the method with which the author worked, for an evaluation (by way of conclusion) of the historical character of the Biographical Memoirs.
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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 El Dorado.
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 its popular medieval religious roots. On no account ought it to be dismissed as novelized history, which it is not.
John Itzaina – “My Charitable Mademoiselle”
Eugenio Valentini, SDB, in his “Presentazione” 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.
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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.
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Aldo Giraudo – Storiografia Salesiana – Realizzazione e prospettive
In occasione del 25° dell’Istituto Storico Salesiano, a sei mesi di distanza dalla scomparsa del professor don Pietro Stella, è stato organizzato un convegno sulla storiografia salesiana. Continue reading “Aldo Giraudo – Storiografia Salesiana – Realizzazione e prospettive”
Pietro Stella – Lezione del 14 dicembre 2006
Pietro Stella fu un maestro nel senso più nobile del termine. Questo volume è una riflessione su temi a lui congeniali, in cui ha impresso un’impronta storiografica decisiva. Continue reading “Pietro Stella – Lezione del 14 dicembre 2006”