Richard Wanner – “Don Bosco’s gift to the Church: a spirituality for youth” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”

St. John Bosco (1815-1888) was a product of Piedmont in northern Italy. His seventy-two years spanned a time of industrialization in Turin and other major cities and the complexities of Italian unification. Despite an often harsh anti-clerical atmosphere and the volatile political situation , a number of saints rose to prominence in nineteenth century Piedmont.

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Michael Ribotta – “«The road not taken». The Salesian’s circuitous road to North America” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”

In the fall of 1870, for reasons that have never been documented, Don Bosco did not answer Archbishop Joseph Alemany’s invitation to travel the El Camino Real in the land of El Dorado.

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Arthur Lenti – “Don Bosco’s Boswell: John Baptist Lemoyne-the man and his work” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”

Part I will present a biographical sketch of the man; Part II will deal with the sources and the editorial history of the Biographical Memoirs; and Part III will inquire into the historical criteria and into the method with which the author worked, for an evaluation (by way of conclusion) of the historical character of the Biographical Memoirs.

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Clelia Genghini – Un anno di assistenza sotto la guida di Madre Assistente Suor Emilia Mosca. Nizza Monferrato, anno scolastico 1892-93

Il libretto raccoglie una serie di orientamenti pedagogici ed appunti di conferenze tenute da madre Emilia Mosca, la “seconda assistente” dell’Istituto delle FMA, alle prime maestre che si formarono  a Nizza Monferrato.  Continue reading “Clelia Genghini – Un anno di assistenza sotto la guida di Madre Assistente Suor Emilia Mosca. Nizza Monferrato, anno scolastico 1892-93”

Carlo Loots,Colette Schaumont – La formazione dei collaboratori laici

La fondazione della Società Salesiana risale al 18 dicembre dell’anno 1859: “Allo scopo e nell’intento di promuovere e conservare lo spirito di vera carità che richiedesi nell’opera degli Oratorii per la gioventù abbandonata e pericolante” i membri si associano “avendo di mira il vicendevole aiuto per la santificazione propria, si propongono di promuovere la gloria di Dio e la salute delle anime, specialmente delle più bisognose d’istruzione e di educazione” Il fondamento e la finalità della collaborazione tra salesiani e laici è la cura (dell’anima) del giovane.

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Arthur Lenti – “The earliest biographies of Don Bosco and their english translations” in “Journal of Salesian Studies”

Therefore, all early biography on Don Bosco, including Fr. Lemoyne’s and his successors’, should be approached with the right understanding of its popular medieval religious roots. On no account ought it to be dismissed as novelized history, which it is not.

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