Don Bosco: notes for an integral look at the promotion of the “poor” and “marginalized”

Abstract

The present article-essay aims to point out some notes that make it possible to perceive Don Bosco's life action, that is, his way of acting, as being the fruit of the comprehension of a man who understood the Incarnate Word, God incarnate in the concrete reality of every human person, not alien to the sufferings and social dilemmas. To answer this objective, the method adopted for this research will be deductive-inductive. As for the methodology, it will be a literature review. It is possible to note that, besides being a spiritual leader, Don Bosco was a deeply “human” man, for he understood the reality of human existence in its existential and real peripheries, not only spiritual. But he was also a man compelled by the spirituality of the Incarnate Word, and this dimension is very important in his mission, because it constitutes his ideal of life.