Don Bosco’s Second Great Hagiographical Essay: “The Life of Young Dominic Savio”

· Arthur J. Lenti, volume 12
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by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB

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Subjects:

  • Introduction
  • Initial Presentation of Don Bosco’s Life of Savio
  • Don Bosco’s Savio Biography and Its Successive Editions
  • Sources of the Savio Biography
  • Presentation of the First Edition of the Savio Biography (1859)
  • Dominic Savio’s Cursus Vitae
  • Dominic Savio’s Parents, Family and Childhood
  • Ranello (1815-1840)
  • Mondonio (1840-1841)
  • San Giovanni of Riva near Chieri (1841-1843 ) – Dominic ‘s Birth
  • Morialdo (1843-1853)
  • Letter of Father Giovanni Battista Zucca (1818-1878) to Don Bosco, May 5, 1857
  • School at Castelnuovo from Morialdo
  • Letter of Father Alessandro Allora, Teacher at Castelnuovo [August 20 (?), 1857]
  • Back to Mondonio (1853-)
  • Letter of Father Joseph Cugliero’s, School teacher at Mondonio (Excerpts)
  • The Rest of the Family
  • Dominic Meets Don Bosco and Is Accepted as a Student at the Oratory (1854)
  • School Year 1854-55
  • First Steps toward Holiness under Don Bosco’s Guidance
  • Beginning Secondary Studies
  • Edifying Incidents
  • Savio’s “Second Conversion”: Turning Point in the Pursuit of Holiness and in the Spiritual Life
  • Summer of 1855
  • Dominic’s Letter to His Father
  • School Year 1855-1856
  • Charismatic Experiences
  • The Company of the Immaculate Conception
  • Illness and Rest at Mondonio in the Summer of 1856
  • Unfinished School Year 1856-1857
  • Progress of Dominic’s Illness and Saintly Death
  • On His Deathbed
  • News of Savio’s Death at the Oratory
  • Father Matteo Picco’s Eulogy
  • After Dominic’s Death: Noteworthy Questions and Incidents
  • What Did Dominic Die of?
  • The Saga of the Dominic’s Burials
  • Dominic Savio’s Portrait
  • Sidelights in the Savio Biography
  • Vision on England
  • The Swimming Incident
  • The Company of the Immaculate Conception
  • Dominic’s Brothers and Sisters
  • Mrs. Savio’s “Illness” and the Pink Scapular
  • Dominic’s Headaches and St. Aventinus
  • The Stranger at Table
  • A Beautiful Singing Voicce – Savio’s or Magone’s?
  • Concluding Comments
  • Don Bosco’s Reasons (Aims) for Writing the Savio Biography
  • The Question of the Historical Value of Don Bosco’s Life of Savio