by Fr. Arthur J. Lenti, SDB
Subjects:
- Don Bosco’s Vocation Decision and Dream of 1844
- The Oratory at the Refuge and at St. Philomena Little Hospital in the Valdocco District, and the ”Wandering”
- Hostility Confronting Don Bosco during the Oratory’s Wandering Period
- Don Bosco Opposed by Local Parish Priests?
- Don Bosco Persecuted as a “Revolutionary?”
- Don Bosco Abandoned and Alone?
- Settling of the Oratory on Mr. Pinardi’s Property
- Story of the Leasing of the Shed in Don Bosco’s Memoirs
- Additional Information from Archival Documents
- Comments
- Confrontation with the Marchioness Barolo – Don Bosco’s Definitive Vocational Choice
- Context of the Confrontation
- Don Bosco’s Poor Health and Events Leading Up to the Confrontation
- The Confrontation
- Don Bosco’s Illness of 1844-1846
- On-Going and Worsening Illness
- The Crisis
- Acquisition of the Pinardi House and Property (1851)
- Appendices
- Appendix I: Father Borel’s Letter to Marchioness Barolo (January 3, 1846) Regarding Don Bosco’s Worrisome Health Condition
- Appendix II
- Don Bosco’s Letter to Marquis Michael Cavour, Vicar of Turin (March 13, 1846)
- Appendix III: Marchioness Barolo’s Letter to Father Borel (May 18, 1846)
- Appendix IV: Introduction and Historical Outline
- From the Draft Regulations for the Oratory of St. Francis De Sales (Piano di Regolamento per l’Oratorio maschile di S. Francesco di Sales in Torino nella regione Valdocco) (1854)
- Introduction
- Historical Outline
- (Cenno Storico dell’Oratorio di S. Francesco di Sales)
- The Beginning of the Present Oratory of Valdocco and Its Development to the Present Time