On the“Life” of Dominic Savio written by Father Bosco. The Author’s  Intentions and the Ways of Interpretation Cover Image

Wokół „Życia” Dominika Savio napisanego przez ks. Bosko. Intencje autora i sposoby interpretacji
On the“Life” of Dominic Savio written by Father Bosco. The Author’s Intentions and the Ways of Interpretation

Author(s): Aldo Giraudo
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe Franciszka Salezego (TNFS)

Summary/Abstract: Don Bosco wrote the biography of the youngster Dominic Savio in 1859 as a booklet for a monthly series Letture Cattoliche publication in his sixth year. With the publication of this brief but important booklet, the first period of the pastoral and educative action of the Saint can be considered closed. In fact, after a few months, precisely on 18th December of the same year, Don Bosco offi- cially founded the Salesian Society and thus initiated the new phase of his life as founder of reli- gious families, consolidator and propagator of the work that from Turin will spread throughout the world with ever growing success. To comprehend the pedagogical and spiritual importance of this biography, one needs to situ- ate this small booklet within the educative experience of Don Bosco which in turn, needs to be placed within the vast sociological phenomenon of the emergence of youth as a category in the European society of the eighteen hundred and fifties.

  • Issue Year: 21/2005
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 509-530
  • Page Count: 22