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The Catholic Readings: Writing for the Masses

The Catholic Readings Writing for the Masses

by Stephen Whelan, SDB     Subjects: Introduction: The Catholic Readings as an Apostolate 1853: The Well-Instructed Catholic: A Father’s Timely Talks to His Children with a Summation by Fr. John Bosco [II Cattolico Istruito nella sua Religione: Trattenimenti di un Padre di Famiglia co’suoi Figliuoli Secondo i Bisogni del Tempo epilogati dal sac. Bosco […]

Out of Our Past: An American Venture into Seminary Training

Out of Our Past: An American Venture into Seminary Training

by Philip Pasucci, SDB Subjects: Preamble Disaster Strikes The First Planting Troy: Description of the City The First Salesian School, Aspirantate, and Novitiate in the United States The Lutherans and Concordia Collegiate Institute The First Transplanting Dedication of Columbus Institute, Hawthorne Columbus Institute Divides Wandering, but Determination Hardens The Novitiate at Cold Spring The Second […]

Key-Concepts, Concerns and Fears of a Founder-Don Bosco in His Declining Years, Part 2

Key Concepts Concerns and Fears of a Founder: Don Bosco in his Declining Years Part 2

by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB Subjects: Introduction and Description of Archival Source Material The Minutes of the Superior Chapter from 1875 to 1888 Father Giulio Barberis’ Minutes of Meetings of the Superior Chapter Father Giovanni Battista Lemoyne’s Minutes of the Meetings of the Superior Chapter Minutes of the Alassio General Conference and of General Chapters […]

St. Francis de Sales, Bibliography of Publications in English

St Francis de Sales Bibliography of Publications in English

by Joseph Boenzi, SDB Subjects: Introduction Growing Interest in Salesian Spirituality Two Comprehensive Bibliographies Toward Identifying an English Corpus Parameters of Present and Future Work The Writings of Francis de Sales in Translation Controversies (Spiritual Conferences) Introduction à la Vie Dévote (Philothea) Introduction à la Vie Dévote (Philothea) – abridged Introduction à la Vie Dévote […]

Reflections on Virtue: Saint John Bosco’s Heroic Faith as Reported by Eyewitnesses in His Beatification Process

Reflections on Virtue: Saint John Bosco's Heroic Faith as Reported by Eyewitnesses in His Beatification Process

by Fr. Joseph Boenzi, SDB   Subjects: Introduction The Documentation Ingredients in the Beatification Process Virtues under Consideration The Witnesses Relationship of Witnesses to the Servant of God Personal Touch Sampler Questions Regarding Faith Images and Definitions of Faith during the Period in Question Descriptions of a “Man of Faith” by Eyewitnesses Presence of God […]

“School Days … Golden Rule Days”… John Bosco’s Public School Years

School Days Golden Rule Days: John Bosco's Public School Years

by Michael Ribotta, SDB   Subjects: Introduction The Restoration in Piedmont: King Carlo Felice’s “Ironbound” Education Code of 1822 The “Regie Patenti” of 1822 Capriglio (1824) Castelnuovo (December, 1830 – June, 1831) Chieri (1831-1835) John Bosco’s Public School Years in Chieri (1831-1835) “School Days … Golden Rule Days” in Chieri

Key-Concepts, Concerns and Fears of a Founder-Don Bosco in his Declining Years

Key Concepts Concerns and Fears of a Founder Don Bosco in his Declining Years

by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB   Subjects: Introduction Part I. Review and Description of the Documents I. The Minutes of the Superior Chapter from 1875 to 1888         1. Father Giulio Barberis’ Minutes of Meetings of the Superior Chapter        2. Father Giovanni Battista Lemoyne’s Minutes of the Meetings of […]

Key-Concepts, Concerns and Fears of a Founder-Don Bosco in his Declining Years

Key Concepts Concerns and Fears of a Founder Don Bosco in his Declining Years

by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB   Subjects: Introduction Part I. Review and Description of the Documents I. The Minutes of the Superior Chapter from 1875 to 1888         1. Father Giulio Barberis’ Minutes of Meetings of the Superior Chapter        2. Father Giovanni Battista Lemoyne’s Minutes of the Meetings of […]

Tough Love is Not the Answer—Don Bosco’s Views on Punishment

Tough Love is Not the Answer: Don Bosco’s Views on Punishment

by Michael Ribotta, SDB   Subjects: Introduction The Way Things Were Ii Sistema Preventivo Nella Educazione Della Gioventu, Document Excerpt If Punish You Must… Punish Only As a Last Resort The Right Place and the Right Time Let Every Punishment Carry a Clear Message The Culprit Must Be Assured that the Educator does not carry […]

Paolo Albera’s Visits during Don Bosco’s Last Illness

Paolo Albera’s Visits during Don Bosco’s Last Illness

by Joseph Boenzi, SDB   Subjects: A short account of the life of Paolo Albera Paolo Albera and Don Bosco Appendix Paolo Albera’s description of his last visit with Don Bosco Description of the Document Historical Background Correspondence written by Paolo Albera to Marseille  

Don Bosco’s Last Years, His Last Illness and Saintly Death from Eyewitness Accounts

Don Boscos Last Years: His Last Illness and Saintly Death

by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB   Subjects: Introduction Part I: Chronicles and Memoirs I-Carlo Maria Viglietti: His Chronicles and Memoirs (1)Viglietti, Don Bosco’s Secretary (2)Viglietti’s Chronicles and Memoirs [i] Original Chronicle [ii] Transcribed and Edited Chronicle 1884-1888 [iii] Short Autobiographical Memoir [iv] Diary [v] Additional Chronicle 1884-85 [vi] Scrapbook-Style Collection 1886-1896 [vii] Partial Calligraphic Chronicle […]

Discovering America: Father Raphael Piperni and the First Salesian Missionaries in North America

Discovering America: Father Raphael Piperni and the First Salesian Missionaries in North America

by Michael Ribotta, SDB Subjects: Introduction The Four Who Came to the City of Saint Francis Father Valentino Cassini (1851-1922) Seminarian Joseph Oreni (1874-?) Lay Brother Nicholas Imielinski (1873-1948). Father Raphael Piperni (1842-1930) Anselmo Petazzi (1877-1941) Strangers in a Strange Land The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned Fr. Piperni Begins the ‘Italian Cathedral’ of the […]

The Bosco-Gastaldi Conflict (1872-1882), Part 2

The Bosco Gastaldi Conflict Part II

by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB Subjects: Introduction: Establishing a Framework Part I. The Bosco-Gastaldi Conflict from the Approval of the Salesian Constitutions to Archbishop Fissore’s Failed Mediation (May 1874 – February 1875) Recalling the Issues in Context Initial Action by the Protagonists: Renewed Recourse To Rome The Planned Spiritual Retreat for School Teachers An Incident […]

Mother Marie-Louise-Angelique Clarac and Don Bosco-An Idea Matures

Mother Marie Louise Angelique Clarac and Don Bosco: An Idea Matures

by Mary Treacy, FMA   Subjects: Who was Mother-Louise-Angelique Clarac? Early Life 1817-1841 1841-1848: Apostolate in France Algeria 1848-1851 Apostolate in Turin 1853-1887 Girls at Risk in Turin St. Maximus Sardinia Viale del Re – Via S. Pio V Dispute about Sr. Clarac’s Testament Bishope Moreno’s Advice Separation Mother Clarac and Don Bosco Style of […]

A Man for His Times: Father Peter Ricaldone as Rector Major

A Man for His Times Father Peter Ricaldone as Rector Major 1932 1951 Part I

by Michael Mendl, SDB Subjects: Part I: Career up to 1932 Youth (1870-1890) First Salesian Apostolate (1890-1901) Provincial in Spain (1901-1911) Councilor for Trade and Agricultural Schools (1911-1922) Prefect General (1922-1932) APPENDIX

The Bosco-Gastaldi Conflict (1872-82) – Part 1

The Bosco Gastaldi Conflict (1872 82) Part I

by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB Subjects: General Introduction Nature and Serious Character of the Conflict Length and Complexity of the Conflict Method Employed in the Present Study SECTION ONE: LAWRENCE GASTALDI-A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Introduction Lawrence Gastaldi’s Early Life to His Appointment as Bishop of Saluzzo (1815-1867) Family, Education, and Priesthood Rosmini’s Institute of Charity and […]

Don Bosco’s Missionary Dreams (Part 2)

Don Boscos Missionary Dreams Part II

by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB Subjects: Prefatory Note Introduction Part One: Don Bosco’s Fourth and Fifth Missionary Dreams Context of the Fourth and Fifth Missionary Dreams Textual Tradition and Text of the Fourth Missionary Dream (the Dream of the Angels of the Missions, narrated July 2, 1885) Textual Tradition of the Fourth Missionary Dream Text […]

Training Boys to Earn a Living: The Beginnings of Vocational Education at the Oratory

Training Boys to Earn a Living: the Beginnings of Vocational Education at the Oratory

by Michael Ribotta, SDB Subjects: Introduction From Sunday School to Oratory Cavour and Don Bosco Mutual Aid Societies and the Oratory Boys Bosco’s Regulations The Growth of the Oratory Mutual Aid Society The Origins of the Oratory Workshops The Rise of the Oratory Print Shop “’Good Foreman’ and ‘Honest Managers’ Were Hard to Find” Conclusion

EXPO ’84 and Don Bosco’s Peerless Pulp-to- Paper-to-Print Presentation

EXPO 84 and Don Boscos Peerless to Pulp to Paper to Print Presentation

by Natale Cerrato, SDB & Michael Ribotta, SDB Subjects: Introduction The Expo and Its Electricity The Saint Francis de Sales Oratory Press Taking Charge of the Printing Cycle A Printing Exhibit to Behold Press and Private Sector Resistance Damned with Faint Praise The Outraged Catholic Press Don Bosco’s Frank but Ineffectual Protests The Eulogy Metaphor […]

Don Bosco’s Missionary Dreams (Part 1)

Don Boscos Missionary Dreams Part I

by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB Subjects: Prefatory Note Introduction Part One: Preliminary Questions on Don Bosco’s Dreams in General and on the Missionary Dreams in Particular Origin, Tradition and Redaction of the Dream Narratives Dream Narratives in Relation to the Dream Experience Don Bosco’s Dreams as Real Dreams Real Dreams? Interpretation of Don Bosco’s Dream […]

The “Salesianity” that wins all Hearts

The Salesianity That Wins All Hearts

by Jack Ayers, SDB Subjects: Salesianity-an Overview Early Signs of Salesianity in John’s Life Seminary Days at Chieri The Convitto At the Rifugio Early Salesian Signs At Work

Peter Enria Remembers

Peter Enria Remembers

by Michael Ribotta, SDB Subjects: Introduction The Reminiscences of Pietro Giuseppe Enria Early Life- Blessings and Hardships A Great Act of Kindness First Encounter With Don Bosco The Old Master of the Ironworks Safeguarding the Apprentices The Troubled Youth and the Patience of a Saint War The Man Who Conquered Armies