Articles: Don Bosco’s Battle Against Illiteracy –Michael Ribotta The Earliest Biographies of Don Bosco and Their English Translations –Arthur J. Lenti “My Charitable Mademoiselle” – Don Bosco’s Fifty-Eight Letters to Clara Louvet –John Itzaina Essay Review: Memoirs of the Oratory: The Autobiography of St. John Bosco –Arthur J. Lenti Book Reviews: […]
by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB see the online journal version here Subjects: Early Sketches Dr. Charles D’Espiney’s Don Bosco and its Enghlish Language Counterparts Biography in the Miracle-Oriented, Laudatory Tradition Criticism of Dr. D’Espiney’s Biography Dr. D’Espiney’s Dom Bosco for the English-speaking public Miss McMahon Translation of 1884 Mrs. Barker’s 1885 Adaptation of D’Espiney Dom […]
by Michael Ribotta, SDB see the online journal version here Subjects: Education in Light of Don Bosco’s Historical Contex: Intentional Suppression Literacy Rates The Ambitions of a Poor Priest John Bosco Early Efforts The Metric System The Primacy of Morality in Education Finding Educators Parallels and Improvements from Lancasterian Education Tensions: Linguistic Regionalism Epic Secular Literature: Important Secular […]
by John Itzaina, SDB Subjects: Don Bosco’s First Encouter with Mademoiselle Clara Louvet Clara Louvet: A brief Sketch Content and Purpose of the Letters An Intimate and Touching Letter Clara and the Salesian Sisters A Non-Religious Vocation to Sainthood Parallels with Saint Francis de Sales and Saint Jane de Chantal
Essay review of MEMOIRS OF THE ORATORY OF SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES FROM 1815 TO 1855: The Autobiography of Saint John Bosco, Translated by Daniel Lyons, SDB, With notes and commentary by Eugenio Ceria, SDB; Lawrence Castelvecchi, SDB; and Michael Mendl, SDB. New Rochelle, New York: Don Bosco Publications, 1989. reviewed by Arthur J. Lenti, […]