Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
Though she herself was illiterate, Occhiena's wisdom and goodness became the model for the "preventive system" that was the basis of Don Bosco's educational approach. Throughout her life, Occhiena put God first and above all, consumed in a life of poverty, prayer and sacrifice. She died of pneumonia, at the age of 68 in Turin on 25 November ...
Dominic Savio (Italian: Domenico Savio; 2 April 1842 – 9 March 1857) was an Italian student of John Bosco who became a Catholic saint. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died at the age of 14, possibly from pleurisy. [5]
John Bosco, founder of the Society of St. Francis de Sales in 1859. In 1845 Don John Bosco ("Don" being a traditional Italian honorific for priest) opened a night school for boys in Valdocco, now part of the municipality of Turin in Italy. In the following years, he opened several more schools, and in 1857 drew up a set of rules for his helpers.
Maria Domenica Mazzarello, FMA (9 May 1837 – 14 May 1881) was an Italian Catholic nun who co-founded the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco.. Mazzarelli, the place where Maria Mazzarello was born Valponasca, the place where Maria Mazzarello spent her childhood
Michael Magone (1845–1859) was an Italian adolescent student of Saint John Bosco. [1] After making exceptional improvements in his behavior and character, he died due to a gastric hemorrhage at fourteen years of age. Michael Magone was one of three students that Saint John Bosco considered to be a saint.
Bosco narrates that he entered the contract without realizing the gravity of such an undertaking; Nevertheless they ratified they contract repeatedly, especially during Comollo's last illness. According to Bosco, Comollo's last words and his last look at Bosco sealed his promise. Many of their companions knew about this contract.