austraLasia #1769
Saints aren't angels - again!
Note: although we ran an early note on the
release of this book (#1755), here is one by the author himself, courtesy of
the SUE E-Service.
NEW YORK: 23rd February 2007 -- This is a new story about the most exciting
days in the life of Don Bosco - the 22 months preceding the founding of the
Valdocco Oratorio. My new dramatic biography is the creative story of
those months in the priestly career of our mutual friend, Saint John Bosco,
Turin's "Chief of the Rogues". He demonstrated how concerned adults
recognize the vast talent of social good in teenagers. I know. I was one of
them until Salesians showed me a new, better route. Don Bosco, whom our Church
canonized in 1934, fought political leaders, local pastors, and struggled
continuously against anyone seeking to prevent completion of his heaven-sent
goal to teach and save boys. You already know the basic facts. This new story
is an inside peek at the day-to-day concerns and troubles he waded through, the
mena nd women he followed and fought to reach the goal he sought and the
reasons for all of it.
There never has been one like him – an acrobat,
singer, cobbler, tailor, farm boy, magician, a man physically afraid of no one
– and yet his heart was broken a dozen times. A lifelong dreamer, he had no
business sense and needed the help of others. But he laughed, tumbled and
performed his way through until he was so worn that he lay dying on a bed in a
hospital from which he had been fired as a chaplain. In realistic settings you
will meet once more people you thought you knew, Marchioness Giulietta Colbert
Tancredi di Barolo, who hired him and fired him; the militant Vicar of Turin
who demanded he fold his program and move on; the careful reasoning and guidance
of his mentors Saint Joseph Cafasso and Doctor John Borel; a fictitious spy who
snooped on him to report back his moves to the Vicar of Turin, Count Michele
Benso di Cavour. See Doctor John Borel, Don Sebastian Pacchiotti and the famous
Italian writer, Silvio Pellico, in new light. Learn a bit more about the work
of Saint Joseph Cottolengo and his brother Canon Luigi, and papal approval of
the constitutions of the Sisters of St. Ann and the Magdalenes under the superb
management and direction of the clever Marchioness.
As author I will share a portion of all royalties I receive
from book sales with the Salesians. [The author is a graduate of Don Bosco
Prep, Ramsey]
Availabilitiy: Xlibris.com (Bookstore); Amazon.com;
Borders.com; BarnesandNoble.com. Available at cost (USD14.50) from
Salesiana Publishers at the provincial house New Rochelle only. Shipping added
if applicable.
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