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New Biography: Don Bosco Don Bosco 1 2 Don Bosco 3 Don Bosco Teresio Bosco 4 CONTENTS TRANSLATOR'S NOTES …………………………………………………………. 13 Don Bosco and Proper Names ………………………………….. ……………… 13 Common Names .......................................................................................... …………… 14 Notes .............................................................................................................. …………… 14 I NTRODUCTION TO DON BOSCO'S BIOGRAPHY ........................ …………… 15 Sources ........................................................................................................ …………… 15 Essential Events ............................................................................................ ………… 16 Chapter1: AWAY FROM HOME AT 12 ...................................................... ………… 23 Into the Fog with a Bundle of Clothes ..................................................... ………… 24 The Dream .................................................................................................... ………….. 25 180 Pages of Memoirs ................................................................................. ………… 27 Chapter 2: TRAGEDIES GREAT AND SMALL ....................................... ………… 28 A Bewitched Season ..................................................................................... ………… 28 An Event That Changed the Face of the Earth ..................................... ………… 29 Napoleon: General at 27 ............................................................................. ………… 31 The King Sets the Clock back 15 Years ................................................... ………… 33 Chapter 3: CHILDHOOD ................................................................................ ………… 35 A Great Personage ....................................................................................... ………… 35 A Tip-Cat Game Draws Blood.................................................................... ………… 36 A Cane in the Comer .................................................................................. ………… 38 The Devil in the Loft ................................................................................... ………… 39 The Oil Slick .................................................................................................. ………… 40 “I'm Your Mother, Not Your Stepmother" 3 .......................................... ………… 41 Chapter 4: SPRINGTIME .................................................................................. ………… 42 A Beggar's Feet .............................................................................................. ………… 42 Bandits in the Wood ..................................................................................... ………… 43 “My Mother Taught Me to Pray” ............................................................ ………… 44 To School in the Dead Season .................................................................. ………… 45 A Tiny Blackbird .......................................................................................... ………… 47 His Homeland ................................................................................................ ………… 48 Chapter 5: THE YOUNG ACROBAT ........................................................... ………… 49 Trumphets on the Hill .................................................................................. …………. 50 Show on the Meadow ................................................................................... ………… 51 First Holy Communion ................................................................................ …………. 52 The Worst Winter ........................................................................................... ………… 52 Chapter 6: FROM STABLE BOY TO FR CALOSSO'S PUPIL ............... …………. 54 Two Grains and Four Ears of Corn ........................................................... …………. 55 Uncle Michael …………………………………………………………………. 56 5 Four Soldi for a Sermon ……………………………………………………… 57 "Every Hope Died with Him” ……………………………………………… 59 Chapter 7: CASTELNUOVO ..................................................................... …………… . 60 Lunch in the Mess-Tin ………………………………………………………. 60 "Only Asses Grow up at Becchi" …………………………………………… 62 The Alienating "Black Cassock"……………………………………………… 63 Chapter 8: "I MUST STUDY" ………………………………………………… 65 One More Dream ……………………………………………………………. 65 A Reluctant Beggar …………………………………………………………… 67 The March of History ………………………………………………………. 68 Tell the Prince ………………………………………………………………. 69 King by the Grace of God and of No One Else"…………………………… 70 “As Long and Sad as Lent” …………………………………………………… 71 Chapter 9: LAST ADOLESCENT YEARS AT CHIERI ………………………... 73 Sticking Out Like a Sore Thumb …………………………………………………… 74 A Small Incident …………………………………………………………………. 75 The Societa dell'Allegria …………………………………………………………. 76 A Tetrathlon ……………………………………………………………………… 77 First Sightseeing of Turin ………………………………………………………… 79 Chapter 10: FRIENDSHIP'S HIGH SEASON …………………………………… 81 A Human Club …………………………………………………………………… 82 A Tip-off ................................................................................. ……………………………… 82 James Levi Alias Jonah ............................................................…………………………….. 83 Blanchard’s Apples………………………………………………………………. 84 Chapter 11: JOHN AT 20…………………………………………………………… 86 Poverty …………………………………………………………………………… 86 The Peasant Woman in a Black Shawl …………………………………………… 87 Fr Cafasso 2 ……………………………………………………………………… 88 The Piedmontese Trademark …………………………………………………….. 89 Chapter 12: THE SEMINARY: LIGHTS AND SHADOWS …………………… 91 Seven Resolutions ……………………………………………………………. 91 A Rigid Timetable……………………………………………………………… 93 Shadows at the Seminary ………………………………………………………… 94 Thursday Breaks ………………………………………………………………….. 95 Among the Rich ………………………………………………………………… 96 Comollo Again ..........................................................................................………………… 96 A Lost Seminarian ......................................................................................………………… 97 Chapter 13: JOHN BOSCO PRIEST ………………………………………………. 98 Harvesting Wheat ……………………………………………………………….. 98 Priestly Training …………………………………………………………………. 99 Judging Events …………………………………………………………………. 100 What Were Cavour, Mazzini and Garibaldi Doing? ……………………………… 101 Chapter 14: "DON BOSCO" 103 A Pact with the Hereafter ....................................................... : ................. ……………… 103 Millet Bread and Barbera Wine ……………………………………………… 105 "I Trembled at Committing Myself for Life"……………………………… 105 "A Priest Does Not Go to Heaven Alone"………………………………… 106 Priest Forever ………………………………………………………………. 106 6 Chapter 15: FIRST STEPS ……………………………………………………. 108 First Discovery: The Slums ……………………………………………………. 108 The Industrial Revolution …………………………………………………… 110 Progress ………………………………………………………………………. 111 The Frightening Human Cost ………………………………………………… 111 Massacre of the Innocents in Italy Too ………………………………………. 112 Assessing the Situation ……………………………………………………….. 113 Chapter 16: BARTHOLOMEW GARELLI …………………………………… 115 1V•iiting as "In the Good Old Days" ………………………………………… 116 Fr Cocchi …………………………………………………………………….. 117 A Hail Mary as Foundation Stone ……………………………………………. 118 "Right Now:" Don Bosco's Trademark ……………………………………… 120 Chapter 17: THE YOUNG BRICKLAYERS ………………………………….. 121 Devotional Objects and Loaves ……………………………………………… 122 Twelve Musical Beats ………………………………………………………… 122 The Child from Caronno …………………………………………………….. 123 "For as Song as I Have a Piece of Bread" ……………………………………. 123 Risorgimento Politics ………………………………………………………… 125 St Joseph Cottolengo …………………………………………………………. 125 Hunger for God ……………………………………………………………... 126 Chapter 18: THE MARCHIONESS AND THE SHORT PRIEST ……………… 128 A Cilice Under the Finery ……………………………………………………… 128 Wolfs into Lambs ……………………………………………………………… 130 "Don Bosco? The Oratory? Where Are They?" ………………………………. 130 Snowflakes on the Brazier ……………………………………………………… 131 Failure at St Peter in Chains …………………………………………………… 133 Chapter 19: THE WANDERING ORATORY …………………………………… 135 “Cabbages, Dear Boys…” ……………………………………………………….. 135 “Michelino, Take Half" ……………………………………………………. 136 Books Written by Candlelight ……………………………………………….. 137 Three Rooms at Fr Moretta's ………………………………………………… 137 A Big Question Mark ……………………………………………………….. 138 A Different Oratory ………………………………………………………… 139 A Hanging at Alessandria …………………………………………………… 140 Author’s Notes about Don Bosco’s Dialogues ……………………………… 142 Chapter 20: EASTER UNDER COVER ……………………………………… 143 The Marquis and the Police …………………………………………………. 144 Is Don Bosco Mad? ………………………………………………………..... 145 Agony ……………………………………………………………………….. 147 The Grafting Stock ………………………………………………………….. 147 And the Bells Rang ………………………………………………………….. 149 Chapter 21: THE LITTLE BRICKLAYERS’ MIRACLE ……………………. 150 Priestly Concerns …………………………………………………………… 150 Goodbye at the Roundabout ……………………………………………….. 151 Spitting Blood ……………………………………………………………… 152 “Lord, Don’t Let Him Die” ………………………………………………….. 153 “Your Money or Your Life” ………………………………………………….. 155 Outsiders, and Not a Penny to Their Name …………………………………. 156 Chapter 22: A POWDER MAGAZINE ABOUT TO BLOW UP …………….. 158 The Evening School ………………………………………………………….. 158 7 Bishop Mastai-Ferretto becomes “Pope Pius IX” ……………………… 159 Don Bosco v. the "Patriot Priests"………………………………………. 160 Angry Volleys of Stones …………………………………………………… 161 A Thief …………………………………………………………………………. 162 Drunken Revellers' Song and Dance …………………………………….. 163 Chapter 23: ORPHANS AND POOR MIGRANTS ………………………. 164 ATree inThick Fog ……………………………………………………….
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