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  • 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