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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

The Convitto Ecclesiastico – “Where One Learnt to be a Priest”

The Convitto Ecclesiastico: Where One Learnt to Be a Priest

by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB Subjects: Introduction Historical Context: Trends in Theology and Ecclesiology The Jesuits and Their Activity The ‘Amicizie’ The Congregation of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary Projects for the Convitto The Convitto Established at St. Francis of Assisi Life and Spirit at the Convitto The Convitto’s Holy Patrons The Preamble: “Reasons” Chapter […]

Once Upon a Time in Old New York

Once Upon a Time in Old New York

by Philip Pascucci, SDB Subjects: Background The Archbishop of Boston, Don Bosco and Father Rua The Melting Pot The First Calls to New York City’s Melting Pot The Efforts to Obtain Salesians Continue The Final Answer The Arrival at New York’s Melting Pot Planting the Seed The Seed Sprouts The Seed Becomes A Young Sapling […]

Hero and Villain: Don Bosco as Seen in the Press of His Time

Hero and Villain: Don Bosco as Seen in the Press of His Time

by Michael Ribotta, SDB Subjects: Piedmont and Early Press Censorship The Disillusioned Journalist Don Bosco’s History of Italy and Press Reaction The Gazzetta del Popolo- the Anticlericals’ Battering Ram Turin’s “Humorous” Papers to the Attack Death Comes for Don Bosco: Hero to Some Villain to Others The Priest- First Victim of Risorgimento Anticlericalism

ʺThe Most Wonderful Day of My Lifeʺ-The Sesquicentennial of Don

The Most Wonderful Day of My Life: the Sesquicentennial of Don Boscos Ordination Remembered

by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB Subjects: Introduction Part I: The Preparation The Seminary Framework and Highlights of the Seminary Period Part II: Priesthood The Spiritual Retreat, the Keepsake and the Nine Resolutions Margaret Bosco’s Presence Conclusion

Don Bosco’s Gift to the Church: A Spirituality for Youth

Don Boscos Battle against Illiteracy

by Richard Wanner, SDB Subjects: Introduction Don Bosco as a Spiritual Writer Dominic Savio and His Biography Savio’s First Communion and Apostolate The Mystical Period of Dominic’s Life Dominic’s Final Days Canonization Conclusion

Don Bosco’s Vocation – Mission Dreams

Don Boscos Battle against Illiteracy

by Arthur J. Lenti, SDB Subjects: Introduction Part I. Witnesses and Reports of Don Bosco’s Vocation-Mission Dreams The Vocation-Mission Dream Line in Lemoyne’s Biographical Memoirs Text and Source-critical Study of the Vocation-Mission Dream Narratives in Vol. I of the Biographical Memoirs  The First Dream (the Beech/ or Morla/do Dream-the original vocation-mission dream)  The Dream at the […]

The Day They Shut Down the Oratory School

Don Boscos Battle against Illiteracy

by Michael Ribotta, SDB Subjects: The Oratory Faces Extinction Italy’s Anticlerical Sentiments Clashes of Church and State Government Takes Charge The Seminaries of Rome Under Fire Don Bosco’s Urgent Letter of Diversion Resistance Don Bosco Wins Back His Oratory Conclusion

‘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