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Mary Paulina Finn
The Venerable Don Bosco, the Apostle of Youth
Published by Good Press, 2020
EAN 4064066063344
Table of Contents
II—Education. Vocation to the Priesthood. Ordination
III—Bartholomew Garelli. Foundation of the Oratory of St. Francis of Sales
IV—A Typical Sunday. Opposition and Trial. Valdocco. Illness of Don Bosco
V—Margaret Bosco in Valdocco. Success of the Oratory. Attempts on the Life of Don Bosco
VI—Don Bosco's Protector, Grigio
VII—Purchase of Valdocco Property. Church of St. Francis of Sales. The Cholera
VIII—The Immaculate Conception. A Catechism Class. Signor Urbain Ratazzi. Prisoners
X—Plan of Studies. Some Remarkable Pupils of Don Bosco
XI—Interior Life of Don Bosco. His Devotion to Mary, Help of Christians
XII—The New Basilica. Don Bosco a Thaumaturgus
XIII—Don Bosco's Literary Works. Printing Plant. The Salesian Bulletin
XIV—The Salesian Schools. Don Bosco Persecuted. Testimonials of Government Officials
XV—Vocations Multiply. Organization of the Salesian Society. Mary Mazzarello
XVI—Papal Approbation of the Rules and Constitutions. The Spirit of St. Francis of Sales Dominates
XVII—First Foreign Mission. The Argentine Republic. Don Cagliero
XVIII—The Salesian Apostolate in Patagonia
XIX—Two Pictures. The Salesian Co-operators
XXI—Don Bosco's Relations With His Co-operators
XXIII—Church of the Sacred Heart in Rome. Don Bosco in Spain
XXIV—Failure in Health. Letter to his Co-operators. Seminary of Foreign Missions
XXV—French Pilgrims Visit Don Bosco. Other Visits. Prophecies.
XXVI—Loyalty to the Pope in Life and Death. The Closing Scenes.
XXVII—The Venerable Don Bosco's Last Will and Testament Addressed to the Salesian Co-operators
XXVIII—A Retrospect. Don Michael Rua, Superior-General
XXX—Don Bosco is Declared Venerable
XXXI—The Historian of Don Bosco, Don Lemoyne
XXXII—Don Paul Albera. The Present Status of the Society
XXXIII—The Salesian Order in the United States: Eulogy of Don Bosco by the Apostolic Delegate
FOREWORD
This brief sketch of the holy life and marvellous achievements of a great inheritor of the spirit of Saint Francis of Sales, the Venerable Don Bosco is intended only to stimulate souls to a wider study of this loving Apostle of Youth, and so to a knowledge and reverence and appreciation, we dare to hope, which will urge them onward in the ways of holiness, and make them ardent and practical co-operators in the divine work of saving the young—the most pressing need of our times—initiated by the Founder of the Salesian Society, and brought to wonderful issues through the miraculous power of God and the loving intervention of Mary, Help of Christians.
Fascinating reading is the "History of Don Bosco's Early Apostolate," by an eye-witness, his saintly son, Don Joseph Bonetti, which recounts in simple, affectionate language and comprehensive detail the story of the first twenty-five years of the Oratory of Saint Francis of Sales (1841–1866), eventful years teeming with prodigies in the spiritual and temporal order. A veritable Boswell, the author declares in his closing lines: "By it I would show my gratitude to Don Bosco, who received me as a boy, who educated me, both to religion and the priesthood, in which I have been able to be of some small service to others. May my hand wither and my tongue lose the power of speech if I should ever cease to speak of that home of charity and peace, I who have lived there so many years and enjoyed its hospitality."
A complete life of Don Bosco—a monumental one—has been furnished by the Reverend John Baptist Lemoyne, another saintly disciple of the Salesian Founder. It is circumstantial and graphic in the highest degree; and, abounding in personal as well as contributed reminiscences of Don Bosco, enriched with his instructions and letters, and teeming with the historic interest of the times, it possesses an indefinable charm, which is enhanced as we enter with bated breath the world of the supernatural