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Oct 19, 2019 · 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. From when she was just a child, Margaret was a great worker. She had no opportunity for schooling ...
Margherita Occhiena was born on 1 April 1788 in Capriglio in Asti, the sixth of ten children. At the age of 24 she married 27 year old Francesco Bosco, a family friend and widower whose wife and infant daughter had died shortly after childbirth, leaving him with a three-year-old son, Anthony. The family settled in Becchi, a hamlet of ...
- Capriglio
- Francis Bosco: I Becchi
- A Woman of Great Faith
- A Mother’s Heart
- Accompanies Her Son’S Dream
- At Valdocco
- Death at Valdocco
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.
Nov 15, 2006 · 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 Margaret." Love for prayer. Margherita Occhiena was born in Capriglio, in the province of Asti, Italy, in 1788, into a family of farmers. Time and work did not allow her to ...
Dec 1, 2023 · Margherita Occhiena was born on April 1, 1788 in Capriglio, Province of Asti near Turin, Italy. She was the sixth of ten children. When she was 24, she married a widower, Francesco Bosco whose wife and daughter had died leaving him with a three-year-old-son.
Nov 24, 2023 · 24 November 2023. (ANS – Rome) – On 25 November, the day of her birth into Heaven, the Salesian Family around the world remembers the figure of Margaret Occhiena, "Mamma Margaret", as hundreds of children called her when she helped her son Don Bosco at the time of the first Oratory at Valdocco.
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.
