Dear Friends Many biographers Don Bosco started in his writings reflected the episode happened in 1861, Valdocco and referred to the establishment of a "special commission" to collect and preserve the memory of the holy priest and the vicissitudes of the Salesian.
His boys, who have grown up with him and there have been men at his side, are convinced that Don Bosco is a lot of supernatural. They do not want to lose the memory of what has happened in the extraordinary life and work of father and decided to take note and keep writing everything that happens around the figure of Don Bosco.
Alasonatti Don, Don Rua, John Cagliero and other Salesians get together to set the criteria and decide how to proceed accurately convey the facts. For years, read many of these testimonials in Chapter Superior to see among all the veracity of his narrative.
event is a simple but very important. Without doubt, be key to the future and transmission to future generations of what happened and was experienced in first person by eyewitnesses. But the constitution of the committee is also relevant because it expresses two things: their immense affection for Don Bosco boys whom they knew well and whom he owed everything, and it is a sure sign of the belief that Don Bosco was extraordinary.
Without doubt the love for Don Bosco what motivates this decision. But not only. It would be fair to say that is only the affection of those guys who was considered holy what motivates writing and keep the facts after all are disfigured by the admiration with the aim of enhancing her figure. Don Lemoyne
As written in the Biographical Memoirs:
"We can be pretty sure of the truth of what they left us such witnesses. In the course of years, another group to continue its work with the same affection to Don Bosco and truth "
There are serious reasons to doubt the veracity of his narrative. Perhaps there are some elements outlined and accents here and there that are motivated more by atmosphere of reverence for the figure of the holy priest that a more objective reading of reality. But all the testimonials reflect the passing of an era that was fascinating for its protagonists and in which signs of Providence were familiar.
no doubt that we need to acknowledge the work of that committee and those involved in it years later. Thanks to this service have come down to us many details of the intra Salesian otherwise have been irretrievably lost.
is clear that the record of everything said and to Don Bosco has its limits. Is often perceived desire to check the power and sanctity of Don Bosco at the expense of human sacrifice other aspects of the Founder are definitely blurred or hidden. No child who admires and worships his father sheds light on their flaws and limits. It is a sin of omission but justifiable from the standpoint of admiration and affection that these guys profess to man, the priest and the saint.
These limits are not obscure, however, perception - as a whole - that Don Bosco is a remarkable man in which the gifts of nature and grace are manifest in daily life. An ordinary holiness that is perceived by those who surround him as a supernatural gift that God gives to his elect. It is exceptional in the everyday that makes Don Bosco a giant of holiness because the weakness and limit the strength of God appears overwhelming and overflowing. Those
first Salesians knew rightly perceive and convey the uniqueness of a poor priest strongly touched by the grace in which God did great things. They witnessed and what they saw and heard is what we have been transmitted. Although at times they could affection. Neither more nor less. Thanks.
Your friend, Jose Miguel Núñez
