The Venerable Don Bosco the Apostle of Youth: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Venerable Don Bosco the Apostle of Youth, credited to M. S. Pine, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Venerable Don Bosco the Apostle of Youth by M. S. Pine. Read in English 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Venerable Don Bosco the Apostle of Youth
• Author credits: M. S. Pine
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 33
• Listed recording duration: 5:07:47

Catalogue topics

• Catholic
• saint
• saint john bosco
• don bosco
• imprimatur
• nihil obstat
• salesian

Opening tracks: first 24 of 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

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