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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.
The Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB), formally known as the Society of Saint Francis de Sales (Latin: Societas Sancti Francisci Salesii), is a religious congregation of men in the Catholic Church, founded in 1859 by the Italian priest John Bosco to help poor and migrant youngsters during the Industrial Revolution.
It takes its name from Saint John Bosco (1815–1880), an Italian Catholic priest who founded the order of the Salesians of Don Bosco, and devoted his career to promoting education for working-class children, both boys and girls. All of the paintings, murals, stained glass, mosaics, statues and architecture were created within a decade, giving ...
The Biographical Memoirs of Saint John Bosco is a life of Don Bosco written by his secretary, Fr. Giovanni Battista Lemoyne. [4] The Preventive System in the Education of the Youth was a document written in 1877 to be included in the rules of the Salesian Order. [1]
The figure at the center of a Salesian school is Saint John Bosco or Don Bosco, who is also known as "Father, teacher, and friend of the youth." Don Bosco was a 19th-century visionary from Italy who created a system of education for boys and girls from marginalized areas of society. For Don Bosco, "Prevention" meant helping a youth before he or ...
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.
Joseph Bosco served as China country director for the secretary of Defense from 2005 to 2006 and as Asia-Pacific director of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief from 2009 to 2010.
The Monument to Don John Bosco is a large bronze and stone sculptural memorial, inaugurated in 23 May 1920, located in Piazza Maria Ausiliatrice, in front of the Basilica church of Santa Maria Ausiliatrice in central Turin, region of Piedmont, Italy. The body of Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco, beatified in 1934, is buried in the church.