austraLasia #3425

 
St Dominic Savio
PARAÑAQUE: May 6, 2014 -- Three Salesian Brothers at the Regional Formation Centre for Brothers in the Philippines make their Final Profession on this Feast of St Dominic Savio. Congrats to Bros Dominic, Francis and Ambrose.

Readers will know of many resources, no doubt, especially locally developed ones.  Why not let us know or have them and they can all be put together and made available more generally.  meanwhile, consider the following:

Images - artwork
There is no need to be stuck with just one - the rather well-known but not universally liked version by Mario Caffaro Rore. We have a collection of 'Savio' images, or rather several collections.
Savio-1
Savio-2
Savio-3
There would have to be something in there that meets your fancy!

Lives
Don Bosco wrote 5 versions of the 'Life' of Dominic Savio.  The scholars have come to agreement that the 'definitive' version is the fifth, rewritten and published in 1878.  It forms part of the 'Salesian Sources' Volume 1.  You may find the 1878 version of the Life of DS here.

Reflections and studies on Don Bosco's approach to writing up this and other lives
There are several of these, and you can find them all at this link.
But some of you may remember the Seminar run by Fr Giraudo in Thailand back in 2007.  That material was available in both Italian and English, and includes excellent Presentations on the 'Lives.  Find this material on Bosconet - here.
His book on the three main Lives (Savio, Besucco, Magone) was only ever published in Italian, but the excellent introduction to thisis available in English. Here.
There is even a reflectionby a teacher (Mark Murphy, AUL), adapting some thoughts for teachers based on Dominic Savio.
Music
Not too much in this area in English, unfortunately. Someone obviously thought 'Stairway to heaven' as an instrumental version would be good.  You find it in the reflection material above. Useful as background music.  There is more in other languages, particularly Spanish, on sdb.org.

sdb.org also has other resource material on Dominic in a variety of languages.