Aldo Giraudo – «Il cotanto utile istituto detto oratorio di San Francesco di Sales». Motivi dell’interesse suscitato dall’opera di don Bosco nel decennio preunitario

Intendo illustrare, con l’appoggio di documentazioni archivistiche e testimonianze coeve, alcuni dei fattori che nel decennio preunitario catalizzarono sull’opera educativa e religiosa di don Giovanni Bosco simpatie e favori, anche in campo liberale, permettendole di decollare più rapidamente rispetto ad iniziative analoghe, nonostante l’accusa di conservatorismo e di diffidenza nei confronti dell’unificazione nazionale mossagli da alcuni esponenti del liberalismo radicale e anticlericale polarizzati attorno alla Gazzetta del Popolo di Felice Govean e al periodico satirico-caricaturale Il Fischietto.

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Massimo Schwarzel – Il modello formativo salesiano delle origini nella “Cronichetta” di don Giulio Barberis

Don Giulio Barberis (1847-1927), primo maestro dei novizi della Società Salesiana, ci ha  lasciato un’importante testimonianza su Don Bosco e sulla vita dell’oratorio di Valdocco nei quindici quaderni della sua “Cronichetta”. In essa riporta le attività dell’oratorio, detti e fatti della vita di Don Bosco e alcune riflessioni dal 1875 al 1879. Da ciò emerge chiaramente quello che era l’ambiente formativo di Valdocco in quegli anni, la sua struttura organizzativa e le strategie educative, i punti di forza e quelli più deboli, con il continuo lavoro di Don Bosco e dei primi  salesiani per rendere sempre più efficace l’opera a favore della gioventù, alla cui forte  espansione in Italia e all’estero stavano assistendo (è proprio del 1875 la prima spedizione missionaria in Argentina). Continue reading “Massimo Schwarzel – Il modello formativo salesiano delle origini nella “Cronichetta” di don Giulio Barberis”

Arthur Lenti – Don Bosco’s beatification and canonization

This article is written by our own Arthur J. Lenti, of the Institute of Salesian Spirituality in Berkeley. The article studies “Don Bosco’ s Beatification and Canonization Story: Highlights and Sidelights,” and incorporates material that Fr. Lenti has developed for classes and retreats over the course of the last year.

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Arthur Lenti – Politics of the “Our Father” and the holy father: Don Bosco’s mediation in Church-State affairs

Fr. Arthur J. Lenti tells the story of Don Bosco’ s efforts to mediate between the Holy See and the Italian government during the tense years of Italian unification. Of special importance was the appointment of bishops. After offering background on the historical events leading to the estrangement between the Church and state in Italy, the author goes to the sources in an effort to answer the question why someone so politically unimportant as Don Bosco, should become involved in a capacity of “negotiator.”

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Bogdan Stańkowski – Giovanni Bosco and young people in the master-apprentice relationship perspective. Upbringing implications in view of work with socially maladjusted youth

The author of this article wants to explore the phenomenology of Giovanni Bosco’s encounter with his pupils. We would like to explain two explorative issues, that is, a) what are the characteristic features of Giovanni Bosco’s relations with his students and what are the resulting implications; and b) how socially maladjusted youth perceive their educator and how such teacher-student relations fit into the category of the master-apprentice dialogue?

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Rik Biesmans – Don Bosco & Saint Francis De Sales (1842-1880). Concerning the question whether Don Bosco was influenced by Francis de Sales in both his personal faith and his pastoral-pedagogical practice

While preparing pilgrimages and spiritual exercises in Annecy and the neighborhood, I discovered reliable sources among the German and Dutch Oblates of St Francis de Sales. As a consequence of keeping contact with various participants, they invited the undersigned to take part in the annual meetings of their Arbeitsgemeinschaft (“study group”) in Eichstätt, Germany.

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Paul Formosa – Historical sketch of the oratory of Don Bosco in Malta

In this article, I will attempt to trace how Don Bosco’s original experience was translated in such a way that his work could be established in Malta – an island country in the Mediterranean with a distinct tradition and culture from that in which the Salesian story first began and developed in Turin, Italy. I will place special emphasis on the Salesian Oratory, Sliema.

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Arthur Lenti – Saint with a human face: Don Bosco in Father Giulio Barberis original chronicle

The Central Salesian Archive contains numerous eyewitness reports of Don Bosco’s words and deeds, particularly in the form of chronicles and memoirs. I drew heavily on these documents for previous articles which saw the light of day in the pages of this Journal. I shall do the same for the present article.

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Pietro Stella – Lo studio e gli studi su Don Bosco e sul suo pensiero pedagogico-educativo. Problemi e prospettive

Sommario:

  • 1. Studi su Don Bosco fuori della cerchia salesiana
  • 2. Studi su Don Bosco entro l’ambito salesiano
  • 3. Verso un rinnovamento: da una lettura spiritualistica e soprannaturale a una lettura scientifica

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Michael Ribotta – The “Big Rat” and the “Mad Priest of Turin”- Don Bosco’s relationship with Prime Minister Rattazzi

Perhaps of all the leading political personages of the Italian Risorgimento with whom Don Bosco enjoyed some measure of friendship, Urbano Rattazzi’s name, like Abou Ben Adam’s, led the rest.

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