The case study which is the subject of this book is drawn from an earlier era of expansion and optimism. Based upon a very full collection of contemporary records, it deals with the foundation of the junior seminary for boys established by the Salesian Congregation in 1929 at Shrigley Park, near Macclesfield in Cheshire, and with its development during the course of the decade leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War.
The question that this paper seeks to explore is to what extent Don Bosco’s educational approach was received and accepted in England and to what extent it was itself modified in the process of meeting a new and alien culture. Part of the debate involves the English perception that some aspects of Don Bosco’s Preventive System to the eyes of some foreign Salesians the existence of corporal punishment in Salesian schools was a direct contradiction of Don Bosco’s approach to education. In order to understand this cultural incomprehension, this essay looks at the nature of the English educational context in Victorian England. It will highlight one particular issue where the Salesian approach to education was significantly modified by its experience in England i.e. how corporal punishment came to be incorporated into the practice in the English Salesian schools.
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The guild had a considerable impact on the social and cultural development of the Scottish Catholic Teachers.
What follows is an attempt to write a history of the foundation and development of the Salesians in England, from the origins in the 1940s up to 1930, with a postscript on the crisis of 1939-40.
In tutta la sua corrispondenza don Rua manifesta una preoccupazione profonda per ogni persona e una cura pastorale per ognuno. Per lui, le strutture altamente centralizzate del governo che hanno caratterizzato la Società Salesiana sin dalla sua fondazione non intralciano, ma al contrario promuovono la crescita della fiducia e lo sviluppo sia del singolo che della comunità locale. Continue reading “John Dickson – “L’influsso di don Rua sull’Ispettoria inglese emergente dalle lettere ai salesiani”, in “Don Michele Rua primo successore di Don Bosco. Tratti di personalità, governo e opere (1888-1910)”.”
Nel contesto della crisi odierna nella Chiesa di abusi sui minori e la perdita di credibilità delle autorità ecclesiastiche e le critiche della risposta del’gli ordini religiosi, è opportuno che come salesiani guardiamo ancora una volta la qualità delle nostre relazioni educative.
Continue reading “John Dickson – La qualità delle relazioni educative: un caso di studio storico”
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Michael Rua (1837-1910) was a pupil, then the lifetime collaborator and finally, the first successor of St. John Bosco as Rector Major of the Salesian Society (1888-1910). During his Rectorate the Salesians grew from 1030 members in 64 houses to 4420 confreres scattered across the globe. Don Rua’s letters to England offer the reader a glimpse of the character of their writer and of the pastoral care he took of a small group of relatively insignificant Salesians in what was very often the inhospitable atmosphere of the British empire at the height of its power.
Continue reading “John Dickson – An introduction to Don Rua’s letters to England”
Nell’anno centenario della fondazione del primo Oratorio è bene mettere nella miglior luce il grande dono che la Vergine Immacolata fece alla gioventù guidando il suo fedele servo Don Bosco a questa terra benedetta, destinata ad essere centro e foco d’irradiazione delle Opere salesiane a salvezza delle anime.
The question that this paper seeks to explore is to what extent Don Bosco’s educational approach was received and accepted in England and to what extent it was itself modified in the process of meeting a new and alien culture.
Nel periodo che precedette la prima guerra mondiale l’Europa fu attraversata da una grande ondata di liberalismo pedagogico. Essa fu ispirata dai progressi della psicologia che stavano dimostrando tutta la dannosità dei principi educativi fino ad allora seguiti e rivendicando un maggiore rispetto per la personalità dell’educando.
Nella prima udienza il papa Leone XIII, il giorno 21 di Febbraio dell’anno 1888, disse a don Rua: “Don Rua, voi siete il successore di Don Bosco: mi condolgo con voi per la perdita che avete fatta, ma mi rallegro perchè Bosco era un Santo e dal Cielo non mancherà di assistervi”. Continue reading “Michele Rua – Prima udienza avuta dal S. Padre dopo la morte di D. Bosco.”
Prompted by the visit of the Holy Father and the Beatification of Cardinal Newman in England in September 2010, the author considers Dominic Savio’s wellknown dream about England and the Catholic Faith, and, after considering the explanations provided by others, offers another hypothesis based on Don Bosco’s own considerable personal knowledge and interest in events in that country at the time.
Continue reading “Bernard Francis Grogan – Dominic Savio and England: another hypothesis”
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