Polskie publikacje o św. Janie Bosko

Jan Pietrzykowski

Abstrakt

The author of this article showed the positive role of the religious book and press informing the Polish society of the life and activity of the founder of the Society of Saint Francis de Sales. Even in the lifespan of St. John Bosco, his biographies were translated into Polish and printed in Cracow, Lvov, Poznan and Warsaw. Since 1898, the Polish edition of the Salesian Bulletin entitled „Wiadomości Salezjańskie”, which soon became „Pokłosie Salezjańskie” (in 1916). Between the two world wars, the most publications about St. John Bosco came out owing to his beatification and canonization (1929, 1934). After the War II „Pokłosie Salezjańskie” was being edited until the close-down of the publishing office (1949). The Salesians revived Salesian Publications during the time of the communist censorship (1976), they managed to publish several biographies of St. John Bosco, and two books dedicated to him bring from abroad ( Italy, the UK). Articles on the subject of the Great Educator of the young were published in the internal periodical – „Nostra”, and in the annual „Seminare” which was not coming out on a regular basis in 1975-1988. After having initiated cooperation with the publication Elle Di Ci in Turin, the Polish reader has access to a wide spectrum of books edited in the Salesian Society worldwide.