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 – “«The most wonderful day of my life» – The sesquicentennial of Don Bosco’ s ordination remembered” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”
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.
Michael Mendl – “St. John Bosco’s dealings with the Cavour family” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”
In carrying out his humble apostolate on behalf of poor and abandoned boys, Saint John Bosco (1815-1888) came into frequent contact with the wealthy and the powerful of Piedmontese society.
Arthur Lenti – “Don Bosco’s vocation – mission dreams” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”
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.
Michael Ribotta – “The day they shut down the oratory school” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”
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.
Richard Wanner – “Don Bosco’s gift to the Church: a spirituality for youth” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”
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.
Michael Ribotta – “«The road not taken». The Salesian’s circuitous road to North America” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”
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 – “Don Bosco’s Boswell: John Baptist Lemoyne-the man and his work” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”
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.
John Itzaina – “My Charitable Mademoiselle” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”
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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Arthur Lenti – “The earliest biographies of Don Bosco and their english translations” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”
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.
Michael Ribotta – “Don Bosco’s battle against illiteracy ” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”
In this article M. Ribotta explains Don Bosco’s commitment to promoting education in Turin.