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Luigi Variara was born in 1875 in Asti to Pietro Variara and Livia Bussa.. Variara entered a Salesian Oratory in Turin at the age of 12 for studies. His father heard John Bosco preach in 1856 and took Variara to Valdocco to complete his studies; Variara met Bosco for a brief period in 1887 before Bosco died in 1888 and the encounter with Bosco left a deep imprint upon Variara. [2]
Albert Boscov died from pancreatic cancer on February 10, 2017, at the age of eighty-seven. [18] The chain is now headed by his nephew, Jim Boscov. [2]Boscov's continuing success makes it regarded as somewhat of an "outlier" because many department store retailers had begun pulling back to a degree on brick-and-mortar formats.
Luigi Versiglia, S.D.B. (5 June 1873 – 25 February 1930) was an Italian Catholic prelate and professed member from the Salesians of Don Bosco who served as the first apostolic vicar of Shaoguan from 1920 until his murder.
Michele Rua (English: Michael Rua; 9 June 1837 – 6 April 1910) was an Italian Catholic priest and professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco. [1] Rua was a student under Don Bosco and was also the latter's first collaborator in the order's founding as well as one of his closest friends.
Filippo Rinaldi (28 May 1856 – 5 December 1931) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Salesians of Don Bosco; he served as the third Rector Major for the order from 1922 until his death in 1931.
Carlo Crespi was the third of thirteen children born to Daniele Crespi, a peasant, and his wife Luisa Croci. In 1907, he began his novitiate in Foglizzo and between 1909 and 1911 he studied philosophy in Valsalice, where he met priest Renato Ziggiotti, who would live to become the successor of John Bosco. On Sunday, 28 January 1917, Crespi was ...
On 13 February 1930, Caravario was accompanying Versiglia on his pastoral visit to his mission in Lianzhou and there were some young boys and girls with them.
Giuliano Ughi della Cavallina, or Giuliano della Cavallina, (Cavallina di Mugello, 1483 – Bosco ai Frati, 1569) was a sixteenth-century Franciscan friar and writer. He spent his youth in his native village, La Cavallina, today a hamlet of some 2,500 inhabitants in the comune (municipality) of Barberino di Mugello, in the Province of Florence ...