Don Bosco visited Rome in May of 1884, four years before his death. Just as he was about to leave the eternal city, Don Bosco had a letter written to the Oratory to relate a dream of the greatest importance. He had this dream on one of the nights that he had been feeling sicker than usual. He told Father John Baptist Lemoyne about it in several installments, ordering him to write it down.
Father Lemoyne then redrafted the letter with only the passages that did not deal with the Oratory superiors. When Father Michael Rua read it to them one evening after prayers, the boys were enraptured, especially when the saint wrote that he had read into their consciences. After he returned home, there was a steady coming and going of boys in his room, all of them wanting to know if he had read their conscience, and if so, what he had seen. This had two principal effects: the beginning of a reform in the life of the Oratory and the dismissal of some boys who only seemed to be excellent in their conduct. The following is the complete account of the dream…
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Thank you to Salesiana Publishers for their kind permission to use the English translation of The Biographical Memoirs of Saint John Bosco by Fr. Giovanni Battista Lemoyne et al. (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Salesiana Publishers, Inc., 1964-2003).
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