Pains of Hell (1887)
St John Bosco In this passage, taken from his 1887 memoirs, Don Giovanni Bosco recounts the most disturbing...
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A Raging Bull; Humility, Work and Temperance (1876)
Redaktor strony This vivid dream narrative, recounted by Don Bosco at the end of the 1876 spiritual...
Monsters that Hurt Young People (1865)
In this lively account, dated 24 February 1865, Don Bosco speaks to his pupils about...
Family Conversation
Fr Bruno FERRERO Son: “Have you heard what happened in Ukraine?” Father: “Bah!” Mother: “Is the soup salty...
The cricket and the Coin
A wise man from India had a close friend who lived in Milan. They had...
Don Bosco attends a devils meeting (1884)
The following pages take us into the heart of Saint John Bosco’s mystical experience, through...
Young people’s gifts to Mary (1865)
In a dream recounted by Don Bosco in the Chronicle of the Oratory, dated May...
The handkerchief of purity (1861)
On June 16, Don Bosco gave the boys the spiritual nosegay to pray for...
I killed her for a piece of bread
A man who had not entered a church for twenty years hesitantly approached a confessional....
Halloween: a holiday to celebrate?
Wise men tell us that to understand an event, one must know what its origin...
A truly blind man
An ancient Persian fable tells of a man who had only one thought: to possess...
The boat
One evening, two tourists who were at a campsite on the shores of a lake...
Progress
An explorer was travelling through the immense forests of the Amazon in South America. He...