Introduction
Part I. Witnesses and Reports of Don Bosco’s Vocation-Mission Dreams
The Vocation-Mission Dream Line in Lemoyne’s Biographical Memoirs
Text and Source-critical Study of the Vocation-Mission Dream Narratives in Vol. I of the Biographical Memoirs
The First Dream (the Beech/ or Morla/do Dream-the original vocation-mission dream)
The Dream at the Age of 16 (First Turco-Related Dream)
The Dream at the Age of 19
The Dream at the Age of Twenty-one
The Dream at the Age of Twenty-two
Text and Source-Critical Study of the Vocation-Mission Dream Narratives in Vol. II of the Biographical Memoirs
The Dream of 1844
The First & Second Dream of the Holy Martyrs
Sources of the First and Second Dream of the Holy Martyrs
Context of the First and Second Dream of the Holy Martyrs
The Textual Tradition of the First Dream of the Holy Martyrs
The Textual Tradition of the Second Dream of the Holy Martyrs
Comparative Table and Reference Data of Dream Source Texts Compiled and Interpreted in the Biographical Memoirs
Part II. Don Bosco’s Vocation-Mission Dreams in Their Historical Setting and Their Significance for Vocational Discernment at Critical Turning Points
Evaluation of Data and Conclusions to Be Drawn from the Foregoing Text and Source-critical Study
Don Bosco’s Memoirs-the Point of Reference
First Vocational Awareness and the First Dream at the Age of Nine
The Calosso Experience and the Dream of ‘Reprimand’
Vocational Decision at Chieri
Vocation Decision in 1844
Conclusion
APPENDIX I: THE FIRST (BECCHl/MORIALDO) DREAM AT THE AGE OF
NINE/TEN
APPENDIX II: THE FIRST TURCO-RELATED DREAM
APPENDIX III: THE DREAM OF ‘IMPERIOUS COMMAND’
APPENDIX IV: THE CLOTHES-MENDING DREAM
APPENDIX V: THE SECOND TURCO-REIATED DREAM
APPENDIX VI: THE DREAM OF 1844
APPENDIX VII: THE FIRST DREAM OF THE HOLY MARTYRS
APPENDIX VIII: THE SECOND DREAM OF THE HOLY MARTYRS