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---- (:comment Write term as a title in lower case except where upper case or capitals are normally required:) '+Term:+' (:comment Write term on this line, after this comment:) Memoirs of the Oratory '+Definition+': (1) "Therefore I am now putting into writing those confidential details that may somehow serve as a light or be of use to the work which Divine Providence has entrusted to the Society of St Francis de Sales....Now what purpose can this chronicle serve? It will be a record to help people overcome problems that may come in the future by learning from the past. It will serve to make known how God himself has always been our guide. It will give my sons some entertainment to be able to read about their father's adventures..." (Don Bosco, in his preface to the MO). (2) It is also printed with an additional title, at least in English: The Autobiography of Saint John Bosco. ---- '''POS''' (part of speech). ''Can be more than one'':

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'''Recommended equivalent''' (it): Memorie dell'Oratorio

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'+Description+': Internal evidence suggests they were written between 1873 and 1875, the rest later but by 1877. Don Bosco forbade publication of the work and wrote that it was exclusively for members of the Salesian Society, but he must have realised it would need to be published - at least for them, and gave permission anyway for Fr Giovanni Bonetti to make use of parts of it for his serialised History of the Oratory in the Salesian Bulletin from January 1879 onwards. Is it an autobiography? Not formally. Don Bosco knew that the story of the Oratory could not be told without his own story. Hence he begins from his own childhood. As Fr Lenti describes it, the MO "are to be understood as the product of a Founder's concerns in a period of consolidation of, and reflection on, his work". (DB History and Spirit Vol 1 . 132). MO spans three periods, three decades, beginning from his birth in 1815 and concluding in 1855. Despite the third decade concluding in 1855, MO in fact ends with 1854 when, according to Don Bosco's own words, a new story began which, if written down, might have been entitled, ''Memoirs of the Society of st Francis de Sales''. There is other evidence that Don Bosco actually saw 1854 as a dividing point in the saga of the founding. The MO are historical but at the same time not! They might be regarded more in terms of parable and metahistory. The work of Fr Aldo Giraudo in this understanding of the MO is a significant contribution.

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'+Other notes+': In the English edition the MO bears the subtitle: ''The Autobiography of St John Bosco''. In the French edition: ''Souvenirs autobiographiques''. Neither of these appear in the Italian edition, nor in the original.

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(:zapform key=Status:) '''Term status''' (General=''also found outside Salesian usage''; Salesian=''possibly not well understood beyond Salesian circles;'' Neologism, Archaic, Deprecated ''refer to the term's status in Salesian discourse'') (1) (2) [Archaic refers to terms that have fallen out of regular use. Deprecated indicates official disapproval or if not disapproval, official abandonment at least. A neologism is a term that has come into play relatively recently - say, since Vatican II, but the time frame can be flexible.] (:zapend:)

(:zapform key=Equivit:) '''Recommended equivalent''' (it). ''In most cases the Italian term will be the official source term''

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(:zapform key=Def:) '+Definition+' [The definition should not be imagined! It is assumed that it exists either in a reputable dictionary (or at least in similar words) or in some authoritative Salesian reference (e.g. the Constitutions, AGC or similar public document, Lenti's 7 volume series, and so on] (:zapend:)

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(:zapform key=Reg:) '+Geographical/Regional usage+' [Certain terms are common in restricted parts of the Congregation. We have one 'prior' but only in INB; in some parts of Asia the Salesian community is called a 'convent', but not elsewhere] (:zapend:)

(:zapform key=Des:) '+Description+' [Etymological information, mostly] (:zapend:)

(:zapform key=Con:) '+Context (examples of use)+' [English usage, obviously] (:zapend:)

(:zapform key=Note:) '+Other notes+' [Room here for more personal observations, private opinion if felt to be useful] (:zapend:) >><< (:pos1: N/phrase:) (:pos2: ---:) (:type1: EntryTerm:) (:type2: ---:) (:equivit: Memorie dell'Oratorio:) (:equives: :) (:equivfr: :) (:equivpt: :) (:def: (1) "Therefore I am now putting into writing those confidential details that may somehow serve as a light or be of use to the work which Divine Providence has entrusted to the Society of St Francis de Sales....Now what purpose can this chronicle serve? It will be a record to help people overcome problems that may come in the future by learning from the past. It will serve to make known how God himself has always been our guide. It will give my sons some entertainment to be able to read about their father's adventures..." (Don Bosco, in his preface to the MO). (2) It is also printed with an additional title, at least in English: The Autobiography of Saint John Bosco.:) (:status1: Salesian:) (:status2: ---:) (:syn: :) (:des: Internal evidence suggests they were written between 1873 and 1875, the rest later but by 1877. Don Bosco forbade publication of the work and wrote that it was exclusively for members of the Salesian Society, but he must have realised it would need to be published - at least for them, and gave permission anyway for Fr Giovanni Bonetti to make use of parts of it for his serialised History of the Oratory in the Salesian Bulletin from January 1879 onwards. Is it an autobiography? Not formally. Don Bosco knew that the story of the Oratory could not be told without his own story. Hence he begins from his own childhood. As Fr Lenti describes it, the MO "are to be understood as the product of a Founder's concerns in a period of consolidation of, and reflection on, his work". (DB History and Spirit Vol 1 . 132). MO spans three periods, three decades, beginning from his birth in 1815 and concluding in 1855. Despite the third decade concluding in 1855, MO in fact ends with 1854 when, according to Don Bosco's own words, a new story began which, if written down, might have been entitled, ''Memoirs of the Society of st Francis de Sales''. There is other evidence that Don Bosco actually saw 1854 as a dividing point in the saga of the founding. The MO are historical but at the same time not! They might be regarded more in terms of parable and metahistory. The work of Fr Aldo Giraudo in this understanding of the MO is a significant contribution.:) (:context: :) (:equivot: :) (:note: In the English edition the MO bears the subtitle: ''The Autobiography of St John Bosco''. In the French edition: ''Souvenirs autobiographiques''. Neither of these appear in the Italian edition, nor in the original.:) CH HI(:nl:)