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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.
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.
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Don Bosco called his weekly band of ragged young people "the Oratory," a term which to his mind suggested prayer and organized recreation. In the beginning it was a floating thing, its membership growing daily in large proportions.
John Bosco was an Italian Catholic saint, founder of religious orders and writer. He was affectionately known as Don Bosco and is renowned for his work in educating and rehabilitating poor and disadvantaged youth. Born into a poor family, he took up odd jobs as a boy to help his widowed mother.
- Childhood
- The Prophetic Dream
- Education
- Becoming “Don Bosco”
- Boys in Prison
- The Dream Realized: The Oratory
- The Dream Becomes Mission
- Why Saint John Bosco Is Important
John Bosco, also known as Don Bosco, was born in Becchi, a village near Turin in northern Italy, on 16 August 1815. He came from a family of poor farmers, the youngest son of Margherita and Francesco. When he was only two years of age John lost his father. His mother, with sacrifice, tenderness and energy brought up John and two other sons, Antonio...
At the age of nine John had a great dream, which marked the course of his entire life. This dream revealed to him the mission to which he was called: he saw a multitude of very poor boys who played and blasphemed and he started fighting to stop them. At that point, a Man of majestic appearance told him: “With meekness and charity you will conquer t...
John understood that to do good for so many boys he needed to study well, even if this required an economic effort that he could not afford. However, he found a priest willing to provide him with some teaching and a few books. John’s older brother Antonio did not approve that his brother, instead of working, studied and became angry with his brothe...
At the age of twenty, John took one of the most important decisions of his life: to become a priest. He entered the seminary of Chieri where, after six years of intense studies, on 5 June 1841, the archbishop of Turin ordained John Bosco a priest. In Italy, priests are called “Don”, followed by their family name, so John Bosco became Don Bosco as w...
But Don Bosco met the most dramatic situation when he entered the prisons. While visiting the prisons, Don Bosco noticed a large number of boys, between the ages of 12 and 18, in deplorable conditions. He wrote: “To see so many boys, from 12 to 18 years of age, all healthy, strong, intelligent, insect bitten, lacking spiritual and material food, wa...
The main contribution to the youth was the Oratory: this was not simply a charitable institution and its activities were not limited to Sundays, but it was a full-time youth centre for abandoned boys. Don Bosco met the first boy, Bartolomeo Garelli, on 8 December 1841, the feast of the Immaculate Conception. While Don Bosco was vesting for Mass, he...
In the following years, Don Bosco, working almost to exhaustion, accomplished many imposing works. Some of these boys decided to do what Don Bosco was doing – that is, to spend their lives in the service of abandoned boys. Therefore, in 1859 he selected and formed them into the “Society of St. Francis de Sales” and this was the origin of the Salesi...
A reflection from someone in our young Catholic community Throughout my life I’d heard many times of St. John Bosco, especially about the oratory and in the context of entertaining young people with games, music and dance. However, I never really focused on Don Bosco as a real person and saint. I used to separate the oratory from Don Bosco; I knew ...
We are nearly 30,000 Priests, Brothers, Sisters and novices serving in the spirit of our founder, Don Bosco, an Italian Catholic priest who devoted his life to fulfilling the needs of orphans and vulnerable children.
DON BOSCO'S STORY. Testo italiano. John Bosco was born on the 16th of August 1815, in Becchi, a hamlet belonging to the municipality of Castelnuovo d'Asti (today Castelnuovo Don Bosco). He came from a family of poor farmers. He lost his father, Francesco, at the age of two. His mother Margherita raised him with tenderness and energy.
