Arthur Lenti – “Don Bosco’s golden years with general indexes for the series” in “Don Bosco: history and spirit, vol. 7”

Volume 7, the last in the series Don Bosco: History and Spirit, surveys Don Bosco’s Life and activity in the late seventies and eighties, roughly his last dozen years. These are his mature, reflective years; they are also the years of his quasi-retirement, gradually giving way to his sunset years. With regard to content, the nine chapters of this survey may be grouped under four headings.

CONTENTS

• Chapter 1
  • Institutional Organization of the Salesian Society
• Chapter 2
  • General Conferences (1865-1879) and General Regulations
• Chapter 3
  • First Four General Chapters: Bosco Chapters (1877, 1880, 1883, 1886)
• Chapter 4
  • Concepts, Concerns and Fears of a Founder
• Chapter 5
  • Don Bosco’s Concerns with the Life and Discipline of the Oratory Communities (1884-1885)
• Chapter 6
  • Don Bosco’s Writings and Publishing Activity in His Latter Years
• Chapter 7
  • Don Bosco’s Physical Decline and Quasi-Retirement (1884-1887)
• Chapter 8
  • Don Bosco’s Last Illness and Saintly Death — Fr. Michael Rua’s Succession
• Chapter 9
  • Don Bosco’s Beatification and Canonization: Story, Highlights and Sidelights

Reference time period: 1870 – 1888