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:'''barbera''':''barbera'' A grape type typical of the Monferrato region in Piedmont, and popular also at the time of Don Bosco :'''barrarotta''': or ''barra rotta'' A game played in Italy in DB's day and long thereafter! :'''Bartolomeo Garelli''':A Salesian traditional story not recounted before the writing of the ''Memoirs of the Oratory'' in the mid 1870's but first recounted in Bonetti's serialized version in the Salesian Bulletin 1879. The story lends belief to the symbolic date of December 8th for the beginning of Don Bosco's work of the Oratory as a simple catechism lesson :'''Basilica di Maria Ausiliatrice''':''The Basilica of Mary Help of Christians'' (at Valdocco) :'''beatificazione''':''beatification'' The last step but one in the process of sainthood. As a term, it was introduced in 15th Century. From 18th Century it became obligatory before canonisation :'''beatitudini''':''(The) Beatitudes'' The term has special resonance for Salesians of the 20th and 21st centuries because of the 'Hill of the Beatitudes' proclaimed as such by Pope John Paul II at Colle Don Bosco on the occasion of the beatification of Laura Vicuña :'''Beato''':''Blessed'' Cf ''beatificazione''' above. :'''benefattori''':''benefactors'' :'''biblioteca centrale''':''central library'' (of the Congregation, at the General House) :'''Biblioteca degli Scrittori Latini''':''Collection of Latin Writers'' Published by Don Bosco in 1866 :'''Biglione''':The ''Cascina Biglione'' was the homestead for the main farming property at The Becchi, where the Bosco family lived and where John Bosco's father worked. The house (where John Bosco was actually born) was pulled down when the Basilica at Colle Don Bosco was built in the 1960s :'''bilancio consuntivo''':''final balance'' (accounting) :'''bilancio preventivo''':''budget'' (accounting) :'''biricchino''':lively, ''cheeky, youngster, scamp'' :'''BIS''':''Bosco Information Services'' In South Asia :'''Bollettino Salesiano''':''Salesian Bulletin'' Founded by Don Bosco in 1877 :'''bontà''':''goodness, kindness'' :'''borgata''':''hamlet'' :'''Borgo Dora''':''The Dora district or suburb'' Near Valdocco. A very poor, crowded industrial area in Don Bosco's day :'''Bosco''':literally ''wood'' Piedmontese ''Bòsch'' :'''BOSCOM''':''Association of Salesian social communication delegates'' India :'''Bosconian''':noun and adjectival form found frequently in the Philippines. May refer to a current student or one who frequents a youth centre or other activity run by Salesians, or to a 'past pupil' of such :'''breviario''':''breviary, Prayer of the Church, Liturgy of the Hours'' :'''buon andamento della Casa''':''smooth running of the House'' :'''buoni cristiani e onesti cittadini''':''good Christians and upright citizens'' A typical phrase of Don Bosco's which has several variants :'''buona notte, buonanotte''':''Good Night'' A few words said towards evening, arising from a tradition begun by DB's mother at the Oratory and continued by Don Bosco and his Salesians. Today, especially in day schools, it may take different forms such as a Good Morning talk :'''bona mors''':''(Exercise for a) Happy Death'' :'''Buon Pastore''': ''The Good Shpeherd'' (:nl:)