THE VENERABLE DON BOSCO
conjecture that God revealed Himself to that chaste soul—the indwelling of the Adorable Trinity was made manifest to his spiritual sight, the Divine Generation of the Word, the Procession of the Holy Ghost, that immanent life of infinite Being which is ever going on in the pure soul after Baptism, though, alas! material things obscure the vision.
His blessed patron, St. Francis of Sales, during the ceremonies of his consecration as Bishop, beheld "the most Adorable Trinity imprinting inwardly on his soul those marks which the Bishops were making outwardly on his person." And how many saints have been privileged with the continual loving presence of the Sacred Humanity of our Saviour in the secret abysses of their soul, to instruct, guide and illumine them in the intricate and lofty ways of perfection! Blessed Margaret Mary, the lowly Visitation nun, beheld this interior vision continually. We may be sure that God granted these and other graces of a sublime order to this "faithful servant of His Divine Majesty," Don Bosco, so profoundly humble, and so skilful in hiding "the secrets of the King."
The desire to be led into this wonderful veiled world of his soul's life with God, drew me to consult the Salesian Fathers in the hope that they might furnish me either in print or in manuscript, some records which his alter ego, Don Rua, his saintly successor in the government
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