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Bosco was the subject of the 1935 biopic Don Bosco, directed by Goffredo Alessandrini, and was played by the actor Gian Paolo Rosmino. Bosco was also the subject of two Italian movies: Don Bosco (1988) and Saint John Bosco: Mission to Love (2004). A borough in Quilmes, Argentina, is named after him.
Don Bosco records that throughout these days, he stayed serene and calm. [48] On the evening of 9 March 1857, after being visited by his parish priest, he asked his father to read him the prayers for the Exercise of a Happy Death from his book of devotions. Then he slept a while, and shortly awakened and said in a clear voice, "Goodbye, Dad ...
The death of Don Bosco in 1888 did not slow down the Society's growth. The Salesians arrived in Mexico and established their first institution in 1892 [3] and in 1894 arrived in Portugal. [4] By 1911 the Salesians were established throughout the world, including Colombia, China, India, South Africa, Tunisia, Venezuela and the United States.
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.
According to Don Bosco's memoirs, Comollo predicted his death at least one year before its occurring. At 2:00 am in early morning of 2 April 1837 Luigi Comollo, who was often sick, fell ill and died at the age of 22. On the next evening he was buried in nearby Saint Philip’s Church.
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.
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 Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians (Italian: Basilica di Santa Maria Ausiliatrice) [1] is a Pontifical church and Marian shrine in Turin, Italy.The building was originally part of the safehouse for poor boys cared for by Don Bosco, it now contains the remains of Bosco, and six thousand numbered relics of other Catholic saints.