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John Melchior Bosco, SDB (Italian: Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco; Piedmontese: Gioann Melchior Bòsch; 16 August 1815 [ 4 ] – 31 January 1888), [ 5 ] popularly known as Don Bosco (IPA: [ˈdɔm ˈbɔsko, bo-]), [ 6 ] was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer of the 19th century. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many ...
St. John Bosco (born August 16, 1815, Becchi, near Turin, Piedmont, kingdom of Sardinia [Italy]—died January 31, 1888, Turin; canonized April 1, 1934; feast day January 31) was a Roman Catholic priest who was a pioneer in educating the poor and founded the Salesian order. He is a patron saint of editors, publishers, youth, apprentices, and ...
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On January 31, 1888, Don Bosco's worn-out body finally yielded to nature. With the names of Jesus and Mary on his lips, Don Bosco's soul passed to his God and his Lady as the morning Angelus bell was summoning the faithful to prayer. "Our saint has left us," the people of Turin mourned. Don Bosco left a legacy.
John Bosco, also known as Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco and Don Bosco, was born in Becchi, Italy, on August 16, 1815. His birth came just after the end of the Napoleonic Wars which ravaged the area. Compounding the problems on his birthday, there was also a drought and a famine at the time of his birth. At the age of two, John lost his father ...
Childhood & Early Life. John Bosco was born on August 16, 1815, to Francesco and Margherita, in Becchi, Italy. He had two older brothers, Antonio and Giuseppe. When he was two years old, his father died, and he and his brothers had to help out their mother in earning a living. In 1825, at the age of nine, John Bosco had the first of a series of ...
Apr 2, 2008 · More commonly, however, the great saints have been set on the road to heroic sanctity early in life, usually by holy mothers. Our modern apostle of youth was just such a saint. St. John Bosco hearing his boys’ confessions. When Giovanni (John) Melchior Bosco was born, his mother consecrated him to the Blessed Virgin.
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Jan 31, 2014 · One well-authenticated cure by Fr. John Bosco took place the same year that six boys were healed of smallpox at Lanzo. It occurred about 5 p.m. on May 16, the evening of Pentecost, in the Church of Mary Help of Christians, which Don Bosco built next to his complex of homes and schools for boys in Turin. Maria Stardero, a blind girl of ten or ...
