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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 National University of the Patagonia San Juan Bosco (Spanish: Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco) is a higher education establishment in Patagonia, southern Argentina. It was created on February 25, 1980, by law 22.713, as the merge of two national universities: the "Universidad de San Juan Bosco" and "Universidad Nacional ...
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.
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.
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.
The Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of Jesus Crucified was founded in 1928 by Bishop Francis of Campos Barreto, Bishop of Campinas, and Mother Maria Villac, who lived with Sister Amalia de Jesus Flagelado, a Spanish Galician nun. Sister Amalia (born Amália Aguirre) was co-founder of the Congregation and part of the group of first sisters.
Teresa of Ávila [b] OCD (born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada; [c] 28 March 1515 – 4 or 15 October 1582), [a] also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, was a Carmelite nun and prominent Spanish mystic and religious reformer.
Trelew (Spanish pronunciation:, [1] from Welsh: tref "town" and the name of the founder, Lewis Jones) is a city in the eastern part of the Chubut Province of Argentina, 21km away from the coast. Located in Patagonia , the city is the largest and most populous in the low valley of the Chubut River , with 97,915 inhabitants as of 2010.