CHAPTER XXXI
THE HISTORIAN OF DON BOSCO DON LEMOYNE
"Dearly Beloved Children in Jesus Christ: The Lord in His inscrutable and loving dispensation on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, September 14, at 6:40 P. M., called to Heaven our beloved
Emeritus and Honorary Secretary of the Superior Chapter, and Biographer of our Venerable Father Don Bosco, at the age of seventy-seven years, seven months and thirteen days."
This announcement of the Superior General Don Paul Albera precedes the brief but touching biographical notice of the saintly disciple and historian of the Venerable. "The departure from this life", he says, "of one who lived for so many years with Don Bosco in the most cordial intimacy, gathering up all the pulsations of his paternal heart in order to make them known to future ages with biblical sincerity, cannot but be to us all a severe trial…… But may the holy and adorable Will of God he done now and forever!"
My readers will be moved and uplifted, as I have been, by some excerpts from this life, pleasing to God and man.
John Baptist Lemoyne was born in Genoa,
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