As in the earlier article, so also in the present one, besides transcribing and translating pertinent archival documents (chiefly letters), I will try to provide an essential historical framework designed to make the sequence intelligible.
As in the earlier article, so also in the present one, besides transcribing and translating pertinent archival documents (chiefly letters), I will try to provide an essential historical framework designed to make the sequence intelligible.
Recently the Central Salesian Archives released the files of the Rua rectorate on some 1,750 microfiches. This boon has made archival research in that rectorate possible even for students residing away from the Central Archives.
The present essay has a rather modest aim. Steering clear of the complexities of a biographical reconstruction, it will simply describe Don Rosco’s last years, including his last illness and death, with focus on the person, and with emphasis on words and attitudes.
A young Italian immigrant, Angelo Petazzi, watched anxiously as the English steamship, the Werra, approached New York harbor. Clutched in his hand was a letter from the then Salesian superior general, Father Michael Rua, which informed him of the impending arrival of a group of four Salesians in New York. At their head was Father Raphael Piperni.
During the years following the late nineteenth and early twentieth century the Italian immigrant made his way, educated his children, and contributed his many talents to the great melting pot, not only in New York City, but in the whole of the United States.
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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.
In questa lettera, il Rettor Maggiore Paolo Albera scrive a riguardo della prima guerra mondiale, del primo Cardinale salesiano e del XII Capitolo Generale.
Nella presente lettera, Don Paolo Albera tratta il tema delle disposizioni della S. Sede che vietano la lettura dei giornali per gli ecclesiastici e riporta alcune indicazioni di Don Bosco e Don Rua in riferimento di tali disposizioni.
In questa lettera, il Rettor Maggiore Paolo Albera scrive a riguardo della memoria di Don Rua, dell’Undicesimo Capitolo Generale, di Papa Pio X, delle scuole professionali e della persecuzione in Portogallo.
Riguardo l’Apostolato della buona stampa, don Ricaldone si limita a parlare di una delle branche, certamente fra le più importanti, di detto apostolato: e cioè delle pubblicazioni sui classici cristiani.
Il Santo considerava e coltivava la Musica come strumento di bene e intendeva che i suoi giovanetti, dedicandosi a essa, incominciassero quasi a desiderare e pregustare quelle armonie che poi sarebbero andati a godere in Paradiso. Mentre infatti Don Bosco « intendeva che il canto e la musica — parte integrante delle sue scuole — contribuissero all’educazione religiosa e morale dei giovani, dall’altra parte voleva che, mediante la musica e il canto, i fedeli trovassero in chiesa le attrattive di cui tante belle cose ci lasciarono scritte gli antichi e segnatamente S. Agostino.
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