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Bringing Don Bosco into the Mainstream: Lecture by Luc Van Looy, SDB

Bringing Don Bosco into the Mainstream (San Francisco, February 24, 1997)

by Luc Van Looy, SDB Subjects: Introduction Don Bosco: An Educational Genius Uniting Human Experiences in One Educational Movement Trust in the Young Communication and Information The Foreign Missions Transplant This Genius into Public Life Cultural Life Politics Social Development Conclusion: Two Strategic Points

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 Road Not Taken”-The Salesians’ Circuitous Road to North America

The Earliest Biographies of Don Bosco and Their English Translations

by Michael Ribotta, SDB Subjects: Don Bosco and St. Vincent’s  The Origins of Bishop Alemany  California’s First Arch Bishop  Rumors of the Champion of Youth  Alemany’s Letter to Don Bosco  Don Bosco’s Conditional Reply and Acceptance  A Mysterious Silence  The Patagonian Circuit