Table of Contents
FOREWORD
1. Fidelity to Don
Bosco in an Age of Novelty
2. Two Pillars of
Salesian Holiness
3. The Basis of
Salesian Spirituality
INTRODUCTION
Memoirs of the
Oratory
1. My Early
Life
2. A Dream
The First Decade –
1825 - 1835
3. The Young
Acrobat
4. A Providential
Meeting
5. Hopes
Dashed
6. School at
Castelnuovo
7. School at
Chieri
8. The Society of
Joy
9. Life at
School
10. Louis
Comollo
11. Various
Events
12. A Jewish
Friend
13. Black
Magic
14. Champion
Acrobat
15. Hunger for
Books
16. Vocational
Decision
The Second Decade –
1835 - 1845
17. Taking the
Cassock
18. Mother’s
Farewell
19. Seminary
Life
20. Summer
Activities
21. Days in the
Country
22. Louis
Comollo’s Death
23. Dr John
Borrelli
24.
Studies
25. Priestly
Ordination
26. First Priestly
Ministry
27. Learning to Be
a Priest
28. Bartholomew
Garelli
29. The First Days
of the Oratory
30. Move to
Valdocco
31. Another
Dream
32. The Oratory
Relocated to the Refuge
33. The Oratory at
St Martin of the Mills
34. One Day at
Saint Peter in Chains
35. The Oratory at
the Moretta House
36. The Oratory
Outdoors
37.
Opposition
38. An Ultimatum
from the Marchioness
39. Palm Sunday
1846
The Third Decade –
1846 - 1855
40. A Typical
Sunday
41. The King Saves
the Oratory
42. Beginning the
Night School
43. A Serious
Illness
44. Mama Margaret
Moves to Valdocco
45. The Company of
Saint Aloysius
46. The First
Boarder
47. Another
Oratory
48. The
Revolutionary Year 1848
49. Religious
Celebrations
50. Thirty-three
Lire for Pius IX
51. No
Politics
52. Another Threat
to the Oratories
53. Almost Alone
Again
54. Buying the
Pinardi House
55. A Chapel and a
Lottery
56. Woe to
Turin!
57. The New
Building Collapses
58. Continued
Growth
59. The Catholic
Readings
60. Disputations
with the Waldensians
61. An Attempt on
My Life
62. Further
Assaults
63. Grigio
Historical
Background to the Memoirs
Endnotes