austraLasia #2186


Volume 4 of Don Bosco: History and Spirit now published

ROME: 1st July 2008 -- The fourth volume of the Don Bosco: History and Spirit series, 'Beginnings of the Salesian Society and Its Constitutions' has now been published. It focuses on the early Salesian constitutions as presented by Don Bosco for approval (1860-1874)—in the times of the Turin Archbishops - Luigi Fransoni (in exile) and ensuing four-year vacancy, of Alessandro Riccardi di Netro (1867-1870) and Lorenzo Gastaldi (1872-1874). The series is authored by Fr Art Lenti sdb, Berkeley USA.
    In the introductory Chapters 1 and 2, the process of approval is set in the context of the historic events of the unification of Italy by the taking of Rome and the dispossession of the pope, at the time of the of the First Vatican Council and of the Franco-Prussian war. Out of these painful experiences, Don Bosco decries the hubris of the perpetrators of such injustices (France and Italy) and envisions God's terrible chastisements in his letters from 1870-1873.
    The constitutions are discussed from a double point of view: first, under the aspect of the historical process of approval and of the principles that brought Don Bosco into confrontation with his Archbishops and the Roman authorities (Chs. 3-6); secondly, under the aspect of a novel religious outlook, where we see the profound insights and spirituality that Don Bosco sought to embody in the constitutions (Chs. 7-10). To highlight this second aspect, selected articles from selected chapters are chosen for discussion.
    The series Don Bosco, History and Spirit consists of seven volumes. The first three volumes have already been published. The series is edited by Aldo Giraudo, of the Don Bosco Studies Center at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome.
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Title: australasia 2186
Subject and key words: SDB General Don Bosco series
Date (year): 2008
ID: 2000-2099|2186