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Don Bosco, "statesman" of the Risorgimento
The goal is that Don Bosco was placed since 1846 explains: "Endeavour to make good citizens in this land, then one day they might be worthy inhabitants of heaven. " He did not disown his choice even when the "good citizen" of the Kingdom of Sardinia became the Kingdom of Italy in a hostile to the Church: "As I professed affection for the Catholic priest and head of the Catholic Religion, I have always shown affectionate the Government, for the subjects of which I have always dedicated my fortune and the weak forces and the life. " In addition, its soothing pastoral strategy - "love of work, frequency of the Sacraments, with respect to any authorities and escape from bad companions" - could not be impeded by city governments and state apparatuses, they were worried by the social order of the time. Having overcome the political and religious turmoil of the 1848-1849 biennium with a refusal to join any political party and decided to stand in defense of religion, Don Bosco resumed his social and educational policy, always supported by the leaders of the state as "meritorious work religion and society ", just as were hotly contested by approving laws which initiated the modernization of the country's secular state and its divergence from the Church.
In the fifties, does not strongly support nor oppose the policy innovation directly and publicly - in fact trying jointly with Cavour brothers to solve the case of the archbishop of Turin - the priest avoid excessive harassment and continued to be on good terms with many government officials and ministers, who responded to his appeals for subsidies and clothing and, especially the orphans entrusted. Good relationships are cracked in the early stages of the Unification of Italy. In May-June 1860 - six months after the founding of the Salesian Society - Don Bosco suffered a tough police investigation for suspected political relations with the Holy See and a thorough inspection school for alleged failure to comply with new law school.
vigorous protest with the respective ministers, past brightly the crisis and continued with increasing credit his work as an educator, manager of schools and workshops, advertising, church builder, indeed widened its range out of Turin with the acceptance of new colleges. No one - in the decade that saw sharpening for the Christian conscience "Roman Question" - Don Bosco was unaware of the allegiance of the political line of the Holy See, the politicians did not agree with him when he stated the need, however, not absolute, the Papal States for the independence of the pope, they sensed that the connotations of 'honest citizen' who publicly claimed to be the Don Bosco was not the same as "good citizen "of" their "Kingdom of Italy. But despite these more conservative tendencies that democratic, more egalitarian that paternalistic, more clerical and lay, perhaps because they were involved and he promoted during the years 1865-1875 several attempts at ecclesiastical policy with a view to solving two problems disturbed the political and religious conscience of citizens: the appointment of bishops on the premises, which were free for political reasons and to achieve their part of the so-called "temporality."
In this very private mediation work of Don Bosco was able to be appreciated by the various Cavour and Rattazzi, Ricasoli, Menabrea, Lanza, Vigliotti, Minghetti, Cambray Digny ... At the very Catholic wife dared to ask the latter to inquire about the possibility that the Italian government would be represented at the Vatican! Willing to years of negotiations, only partially successful, remained the generous efforts of Don Bosco - up and down in Turin, Florence and Rome - in the name of the supreme principle of 'lex Supreme animarum salus', it was loaned to realistically combine the skills and responsibilities of both parties. Within seconds the seventies, forgotten dreams of restoration of the Kingdom papal stopped waiting for divine punishment on the "enemies of the Church 'and the old Left in power, the more secular and anticlerical right, largely composed of Masons, Don Bosco had no opportunity to intervene in the sphere of ecclesiastical politics, but did not give to have contact. In 1878 he received personally by the Minister Crispi assurance that the government would give full freedom to the Church to proceed with the conclave.
With the same Sicilian statesman discussed methods of education, juvenile prisons and sent him a memorandum based on the principles of his famous quotation system, but adopted by secular educational institutions. Always work for the same purpose: "I tend to bode well for the morality and reduce the number of urchins, which left to themselves they run great danger of going to populate the prisons. Educate them, into jobs, provide the means, and where necessary, also hospitalized, save nothing to prevent them from ruin, even make good Christians and honest citizens, these works, I say, can not be met, rather they want from any government, any politics. " In 1900, the famous criminologist Cesare Lombroso to prove him right: "The Salesian institutes represent an enormous effort and ingeniously organized to prevent crime, the only fact that is made in Italy."
Francesco Motto, director of the Salesian Historical
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