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Don Bosco's Definitive Vocational Commitment 1844 1846-The Year 1846-Terrible and Glorious

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 […]

Don Boscos Love Affair with Poor and the Beginnings of the Oratory

by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB Subjects: Introduction Part I: Turin in the 1840s and the “Poor and Abandoned” Young People at Risk 1. Demographic Shift, Population Increase and Urban Expansion 2. The Northern Districts 3. The “Poor and Abandoned”: Young People and Children at Risk (1) Kinds of Young People at Risk (2) Children […]

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Don Bosco’s Definitive Vocational Commitment (1844-1846): The Year 1846, Terrible and Glorious

Don Bosco’s Love Affair with “Poor and Abandoned” Young People and the Beginnings of the Oratory