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This was characteristic of Don Bosco: living in personal poverty while spending millions for God. "When you become a priest," his mother had told him, "if ever you become rich, I shall never enter your house!"
- St. Dominic Savio
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- St. Francis De Sales
Don Bosco tells us that he was attracted by two essential...
- Mother Mazzarello
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- Blessed Laura Vicuña
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- St. Dominic Savio
Apr 18, 2024 · Saint John Bosco, Roman Catholic priest who was a pioneer in educating the poor and founded the Salesian order. He also founded the Daughters of Our Lady Help of Christians, a congregation of nuns, with St. Mary Mazzarello in 1872. Learn about his life and legacy.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
John Melchior Bosco, SDB (Italian: Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco; Piedmontese: Gioann Melchior Bòsch; 16 August 1815 – 31 January 1888), popularly known as Don Bosco (IPA: [ˈdɔm ˈbɔsko, bo-]), was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer of the 19th century.
An essential characteristic of Don Bosco’s approach is his interest in the young person as person, and in his or her complete formation as human being and Christian. His total vision of formation is characterized by:
Dec 7, 2006 · Don Bosco used the Catholic Readings to publish the majority of his apologetic, catechetical, devotional and hagiographical writings, aimed thereby at a positive presentation of the Catholic Church, the Papacy and the work of the oratories.
Jan 31, 2024 · In his letter to the Salesians in celebration of the bicentennial of Don Bosco’s birth, issued from the Vatican on June 24, 2015, in the Solemnity of the birth of St John the Baptist, Pope Francis wrote: A characteristic feature of Don Bosco’s pedagogy is loving kindness, which is to be understood as a love that is manifested and perceived ...
The Saint of Youth People. The significant events in the life of St. John Bosco in Valdocco are inseparable from the historical places of the first Oratory where they occurred. 1846 On Sunday April 12, 1846 Don Bosco arrives in Valdocco with his band of young