by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB
Subjects:
- Introduction: Historical Context
- The Situation of the Oratories in Turin in 1849-1852
- Don Bosco’s Early Associates and Collaborators in Oratory Work
- Don Bosco’s Letter, February 20, 1850 to the Mendicità Istruita
- Fr. Borel’s “Memoriale dell’Oratorio“
- Don Bosco’s Cenni Storici (Historical Outlines) of 1862
- Don Bosco’s Article in the Bolletino Salesiano, September 1877, on the Early Salesian Cooperators
- Comment
- Critical Phase in the Oratory Movement in Turin and Don Bosco’s Emergence (1849-1852)
- Issues and Ideological Diversity among Oratory Workers
- Crisis at the Oratory of St. Aloysius with Fr. Pietro Ponte
- Directors at the Oratory of Saint Aloysius: Fr. Carpano and Successors
- Crisis at the Oratory of St. Aloysius
- Comment
- Crisis at the Oratory of St. Francis de Sales and the Challenge to Don Bosco
- Introduction: Archival Source and Nature of the Crisis
- Brosio’s First Report: Efforts to Entice Personnel Away from the Oratory of St. Francis de Sales
- Brosio’s Second Report: The “Outrage” of Don Bosco’s Lottery Circular
- The Lottery and the Circular
- Meeting Called to Accuse Don Bosco
- A Confrontation at the Oratory
- Dénouement
- Don Bosco and His Oratories Gain Preeminence
- Closing Comment: Characteristics of Don Bosco’s Oratories
- Appendix I
- Giuseppe Brosio the Bersagliere: Biographical Sketch
- Appendix II
- Don Bosco’s Statements on the Early Oratory
- Letter to the Mendicità lstruita (February 20, 1850)
- Early Associates and Cooperators of Don Bosco in Oratory Work: Don Bosco’s Statement in the Bolletino Salesiano
- Appendix III
- Correspondence: Frs. Borel, Cafasso, Ponte on the Oratory Crisis
- Letter: Fr. Borel to Fr. Ponte
- Letter: Fr. Ponte to Fr. Borel
- Letter: Fr. Cafasso to Fr. Ponte
- Appendix IV
- Archbishop Fransoni’s Decrees of March 31, 1852
- Decree Appointing Don Bosco Officially Head Spiritual Director of the Three Oratories of St. Francis de Sales, of Saint Aloysius and of the Guardian Angel
- Accompanying Decree Appointing Fr. Roberto Murialdo Spiritual Director of the Guardian Angel Oratory in Dependence under Don Bosco
- Appendix V
- Introduction to the Draft Regulations of the Boys’ Oratory (1854)
- Introduction