The Venerable Don Bosco the Apostle of Youth

Read by KevinS, Phil Chenevert, Michael Curran, Larry Wilson, John, Hincenbergs, Gordon S. Jones, Carol Pelster, Susan Morin

This brief sketch of the holy life and marvelous achievements of a great inheritor of the spirit of Saint Francis of Sales, Saint Don Bosco is intended only to stimulate souls to a wider study of this loving Apostle of Youth, and so to a knowledge and reverence and appreciation, we dare to hope, which will urge them onward in the ways of holiness, and make them ardent and practical co-operators in the divine work of saving the young — the most pressing need of our times — initiated by the Founder of the Salesian Society, and brought to wonderful issues through the miraculous power of God and the loving intervention of Mary, Help of Christians.

Saint John Bosco was canonized in 1934 – thus in this book, which was published in 1916, he in only referred to as Venerable. (Summary adapted from the forward of the book)

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queue_music Chapters 33

1 01 - Birth and Early Childhood 11:05
2 02 - Education. Vocation to the Priesthood. Ordination 8:48
3 03 - Bartholomew Garelli. Foundation of the Oratory of St. Francis of Sales 6:54
4 04 - A Typical Sunday. Opposition and Trial. Valdocco. Illness of Don Bosco 9:33
5 05 - Margaret Bosco in Valdocco. Success of the Oratory. Attempts on the Life of Don Bosco 7:54
6 06 - Don Bosco's Protector, Grigio 6:15
7 07 - Purchase of Valdocco Property. Church of St. Francis of Sales. The Cholera 9:28
8 08 - The Immaculate Conception. A Catechism Class. Signor Urbain Ratazzi. Prisoners 8:26
9 09 - Death of Mama Margaret 5:54
10 10 - Plan of Studies. Some Remarkable Pupils of Don Bosco 8:30
11 11 - Interior Life of Don Bosco. His Devotion to Mary, Help of Christians 7:43
12 12 - The New Basilica. Don Bosco a Thaumaturgus 8:01
13 13 - Don Bosco's Literary Works. Printing Plant. The Salesian Bulletin 12:00
14 14 - The Salesian Schools. Don Bosco Persecuted. Testimonials of Government Officials 7:07
15 15 - Vocations Multiply. Orginization of the Salesian Society. Mary Mazzarello 8:18
16 16 - Papal Approbation of the Rules and Constitutions. The Spirit of St. Francis of Sales Dominates 11:17
17 17 - First Foreign Mission. The Argentine Republic. Don Cagliero 11:11
18 18 - The Salesian Apostolate in Patagonia 9:48
19 19 - Two Pictures. The Salesian Co-operators 8:32
20 20 - The Salesian Co-operators 6:52
21 21 - Don Bosco's Relations with His Co-operators 8:07
22 22 - Don Bosco in France 9:36
23 23 - Church of the Sacred Heart in Rome. Don Bosco in Spain. 8:34
24 24 - Failure in Health. Letter to His Co-operators. Seminary of Foreign Missions 9:40
25 25 - French Pilgrims Visit Don Bosco. Other Visits. Prophecies 11:46
26 26 - Loyalty to the Pope in Life and Death. The Closing Scene 15:09
27 27 - The Venerable Don Bosco's Last Will and Testament Addressed to the Salesian Co-operators 8:20
28 28 - A Retrospect. Don Michael Rua, Superior General 9:46
29 29 - After Death 13:52
30 30 - Don Bosco is Declared Venerable 8:45
31 31 - The Historian of Don Bosco, Don Lemoyne 11:30
32 32 - Don Paul Albera. The Present Status of the Society 7:03
33 33 - The Salesian Order in the United States: Eulogy of Don Bosco by the Apostolic Delegate 12:03