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Margherita Occhiena Bosco (1 April 1788 – 25 November 1856) was the mother of John Bosco and worked with the poor and the less fortunate. Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed her to be venerable in 2006.
Oct 19, 2019 · Co-foundress of the Salesian family. Margherita Occhiena was born on April 1, 1788 at Capriglio, in the province of Asti, the sixth of 10 children. She was baptized on the same day in the parish church. Her parents were peasant farmers full of good Christian attitudes and practices.
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- Capriglio
- Francis Bosco: I Becchi
- A Woman of Great Faith
- A Mother’s Heart
- Accompanies Her Son’S Dream
- At Valdocco
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Margherita Occhiena was born on April 1, 1788 at Capriglio, in the province of Asti, sixth of ten children. She was baptized on the same day in the parish church. Her parents were peasant farmers full of good Christian attitudes and practices. From when she was just a child Margaret was a great worker. She had no opportunity for schooling because o...
In 1812, she married Francis Bosco. Francis was 27 years of age, a widower, with a three year old child, Anthony, and a sick mother to look after. Joseph was born the following year and in 1815, John (the future Don Bosco). They moved to the Becchi, a hamlet of Castelnuovo d’Asti. In 1817 Francis died of pneumonia.
Twenty-nine year old Margaret found herself running the family alone at a time of famine, looking after Francis’ mother, Anthony, and young Joseph and John. Margaret was a woman of great faith. God was foremost in her thoughts and always on her lips.
The love of the Lord was so strong in her that it gave her a mother’s heart. A wise teacher, she knew how to combine fatherliness and motherhood, kindness and firmness, vigilance and trust, familiarity and dialogue, bringing up her children with disinterested love, both patient and demanding. Attentive to their own experience, she trusted both in h...
When she heard about John’s dream at the age of nine, she alone could interpret it in the light of the Lord: “Who knows, but maybe you should become a priest.” She allowed him to be with some of the rougher lads, because they were better behaved around him. Anthony’s hostility towards John’s studies forced her to send her youngest son away so he co...
When asked to go with him in this work, she said: “If you believe this to be the will of the Lord, I am ready to go.” Mama Margaret’s presence turned the Oratory into a family. For ten years, her life became entwined with that of her son and with the beginnings of the Salesian work. She was the first, and principal, Cooperator of Don Bosco’s; she b...
She died in Turin, struck down by pneumonia on November 25, 1856, at 68 years of age. Many youngsters went to the cemetery crying as they would for their own mother. Generations of Salesians called her and will continue to call her Mama Margaret.
La venerabile Margherita Occhiena. Margherita Occhiena, conosciuta principalmente come mamma Margherita (Capriglio, 1º aprile 1788 – Torino, 25 novembre 1856), era una contadina italiana, nota grazie al figlio, Giovanni Bosco, fondatore delle congregazioni dei Salesiani e delle Figlie di Maria Ausiliatrice: nel 2006 la Santa Sede le ha ...
Margaret Occhiena was born on 1 April 1788 in Capriglio, in the province of Asti, sixth of ten children. The same day she was baptised in the parish church. Her parents were farmers with sincere Christian sentiments. From a young age Margaret was a great worker.
Nov 24, 2023 · Margherita Occhiena, maternal and feminine presence at the origins of the Charism. November 25, 2023 marks the liturgical memorial of Venerable Margherita Occhiena, mother of Don Bosco.
Nov 15, 2006 · 10 things to know about Mamma Margaret. November 25 is the Dies Natalis of Venerable Margherita Occhiena, mother of St. John Bosco, a woman of great faith, humility and wisdom. Here are 10 things to know about her. Remembrance. On November 25, the Salesian Family celebrates the memory of Margherita Occhiena, mother of Don Bosco, known as "Mamma ...
