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| Lemoyne, Giovanni Battista, SDB, et al. The Biographical Memoirs of St. John Bosco, trans. Diego Borgatello. 19 vols. Essential for full knowledge of Don Bosco. Each vol. cloth $35.00 to $45.00 (depending on length). Complete set purchase $675 (10% discount). |
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Bosco, Teresio, et al. The Children's Priest, illus. by Alarico Gattia. 1988. Life of DB in comic book form. 64 pp pb 0-89944-133-5 $1.50 |
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| Bosco, Teresio. Don Bosco: A New Biography, trans. Giuseppe Moja. 2005. Popular life of DB for adults using the latest resources (as of 1979, date of the Italian original). 467 pp (Mumbai: Tej-Prasarini) pb 81-87060-24-7 $35.00 hc 81-87060-25-5 $35.00 while stock lasts |
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Wirth, Morand, SDB. Don Bosco & the Salesians, trans. David de Burgh. 1982. Popular style; thorough treatment of the development of the Salesians, Salesian Sisters, et al., from 1815 to Vatican II. 432 pp pb
0-89944-065-7 $4.00
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Lenti, Arthur J., SDB. Don Bosco: History and Spirit. 7 volumes that will describe and assess DB's life and work in their historical, social, and ecclesiological context. Based on Fr. Lenti's courses at the Institute of Salesian Studies at Berkeley over a 20-year period, thoroughly revised by the author and edited by Fr. Aldo Giraudo of the UPS.
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Vol. 1: Don Bosco's Formative Years in Historical Context. 2007. From DB's birth to ordination (1815-1841), with extensive historical, spiritual, biographical, and family background. xx + 498 pp pb with bibliography, notes, maps, charts, and illustrations. (Rome: LAS) 88-213-0645-3 $55.00
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Vol. 2: Birth and Early Development of Don Bosco's Oratory. 2007. From DB's ordination to his firm establishment as the leader of the Turin oratories (1841-1852). xiv + 241 pp pb with bibliography, notes, map, charts, and illustrations. (Rome: LAS) 88-213-0657-7 $38.00
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Vol. 3: Don Bosco: Educator, Spiritual Master, Writer and Founder of the Salesian Society. 2008. DB from roughly 1849 to 1861 as educator and spiritual master in the community of the Oratory youth hospice, with the beginnings of what develops into the Preventive System; as founder of the Salesian Society; as writer and publisher in defense of the Catholic faith-all this set against a background of social change and political revolution. 340 pp pb with bibliographies, illustrations, and notes. (Rome: LAS) 88-213-0671-6 $45.00
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Vol. 4: Beginnings of the Salesian Society and Its Constitutions. 2008. In the political and ecclesiastical turmoil of 1861-1874 (Italian unification, Syllabus of Errors, Vatican I, Franco-Prussian War), DB continues the founding of the Salesian Society, going through a long, difficult effort to draft and win approval of the Constitutions. He contends with opponents in the Curia and with his own archbishops, especially his former ally Lawrence Gastaldi. 355 pp pb with bibliographies, illustrations, and notes. (Rome: LAS) 88-213-0680-8 $45.00
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Vol. 5: Institutional Expansion. 2009. Broadly considering the educational setting of Italy from 1848, and of the left-leaning governments from 1876, to DB's death, this volume treats of Salesian growth in the peninsula and expansion into France and Spain. The boarding school becomes the primary Salesian apostolic work. In the context of the Marian piety of the time, DB's devotion to the Immaculate and the Help of Christians is treated, including the founding of the Daughters of MHC. DB conceives of lay religious who are equal to clerical members: the Salesian coadjutor brothers, treated not in DB's thought but up to mid-20th century. DB acts as an unofficial mediator between the Italian government and the Holy See to secure episcopal appointments. 382 pp pb bibliographies, illustrations, and notes. (Rome: LAS) 88-213-0697-6 $45.00
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| Stella, Pietro. Don Bosco: Life and Work, trans. John Drury. 1985; reprinted 2005. Scholarly-first historically critical study of Don Bosco, concentrating on theological, religious, and political background; appendix “Don Bosco and the Death of Charles” investigates the story of the Saint's raising a dead boy briefly back to life. 384 pp pb 0-89944-182-3 $25.00 |
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Lappin, Peter, SDB. Give Me Souls! Life of Don Bosco. Rev. ed. 1986. For adults, popular style. 368 pp pb 0-89944-087-8 $13.00 |
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| Peraza, Fernando, SDB, & Jorge Garcia. Getting to Know Don Bosco: An Introductory Study of the Life of Saint John Bosco, trans. Javier Aracil, SDB. Historical, geographical, and family background of DB, followed by sketch of his life guided by the Memoirs of the Oratory, up to his post-ordination pastoral studies in 1844. Contains many useful maps, charts and photos. vi + 104 pp pb 0-89944-183-1 $10.00 |
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| Les Memorie I de Giov. Batt. Lemoyne (Desramaut) |
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Aronica, Paul, SDB. “A Man Sent by God.” 1988. 20-minute biography of St. John Bosco. 32-pp pamphlet. 0-89944-134-3 $1.50 |
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| Rinaldi, Peter, SDB. Man with a Dream. 1978. Good introduction to Don Bosco for adults or adolescents. 162 pp pb illus 0-89944-035-5 $5.00 |
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Bosco, St. John. Memoirs of the Oratory of Saint Francis de Sales from 1815 to 1855, trans. Daniel Lyons. 2007. Amended version of 1989 translation. Foreword by Fr. Egidio Viganò. Updated but abridged introduction by Fr. Michael Mendl. DB's text without commentary. 192 pp pb 0-89944-184-X $12.00 |
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| Forbes, F.A. Saint John Bosco, 1815-1888: The Friend of Youth. Very popular biography for teens and adults, first published 1941. Republished by TAN [2000]. xi + 209 pp pb 0-89555-663-4 $9.00 |
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Monmarché, Carole. Saint John Bosco: The friend of children and young people, trans. Marianne Lorraine Trouvé, FSP. 1997. Handsomely illus. book for youngsters (5th-grade reading level). Series “Along the paths of the Gospel.” 71 pp hc 0-8198-7003-X $7.00 |
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| Lappin, Peter, SDB. Stories of Don Bosco. 2d ed. 1979. St. John Bosco's life told in episodic form. A best-seller since 1956. Junior and senior high. 264 pp pb 0-89944-036-3 $6.50 |
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Balbi, Mario, SDB [ed.]. The Unpublished Don Bosco. 2005. Translation and updating of Fr. Michele Molineris's Don Bosco Inedito: background and anecdotes from the oral traditions of people associated with DB and their families; material not found in BM or other standard lives of the Saint. 644 pp pb (Xlibris) 1-4134-8691-6 $27.00 |
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