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Saints Notes KJ


 * Feast Day- January 31
 * Birth- Becchi, Italy August 16, 1815
 * Death-Turin, Italy January 31, 1888
 * Young Bosco received many dreams and messages as a boy
 * Bosco's father died only when he was 2 years old
 * When Bosco was 9, he received a dream about Mary, who told him to be a priest.
 * Bosco immediately went to a country school for priests
 * Margret allowed Bosco to go to Castelnuovo to study more about his vocation
 * During his stay, Bosco learned about the hardships of the orphans in the city.
 * Later, when Bosco was 20 years old, he was ordained to priesthood in Turin.
 * When there was a young boy who sneaked into the church to get warm, Don Bosco's campaign to help young children started,
 * A week later, there were 4 boys that were starving and begged for Don Bosco.
 * Don Bosco helped the boys and he know his service to young children has started.
 * Don Bosco often went with Father Cafasso to the prisons to visit the people.
 * Bosco observed the children in the prisons were almost all orphans and decided against it.
 * Bosco organized a group called the Oratory to gather up the orphans of Turin
 * Oratories became extremely successful after 4 years
 * about 200 orphans were in the Oratories in Turin
 * Built a chapel to fit in about 500 orphans so they all could go to mass
 * Formed the Salesians
 * He founded the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians and the Salesian Cooperators.
 * He built the Sanctuary of Mary Help of Christians at Valdocco and founded 59 Salesian houses in six nations.
 * He started the Salesian Missions in Latin America sending there Salesian priests, brothers and sisters.
 * He published a series of popular books for ordinary Christians and for boys

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Saints Project Essay KJ

St.Don Bosco was born on August 16, 1815 in Becchi, Italy. He was from the Italian Roman Catholic Church and was a famous preist of the Latin Church in Peidmont, Italy. During John Bosco's young life, Bosco had a line of dreams which would help him change they way he thought and guide him to be a saint. When John Bosco was a little, more than two years old, his father died, leaving his wife with threee boys to take care of. Over the years, Bosco had an appetite for learning and studying. Since poverty was too strong for the little family, he had to leave his studies to support his family. John Bosco had his first dream. John Bosco was dreaming about a group of boys that were fighting and using bad words. Then Jesus came and promised a teacher for John: Mary. When John Bosco was 12, he ran away from home because he could not bear to be with his brother, Antonio. Eventually, Bosco found a job in a Wine farm owned by Louise Moglia. Though John Bosco did not take any educational studies himself, he did not go and attend to school for 2 more years. In the year 1830, he met Joseph Cafasso, an elderly preist who supported Don Bosco's first years of the school.For six years in school, John Bosco studied about the ordained priest on the eve of Trinity Sunday by the Archbishop Franzoini of Turin.

Later in Bosco's life, Bosco entered the seminary to because of his interest of his religious faith. In 1835, when he entered the seminary at Chieri. After six years of study, he became a ordained priests on the eve of Trinity Sunday By the Archbishop Frazoni of Turin. After Leaving the seminary, Don Bosco entered on the priestly jobs or labors. One of his jobs was to go with Don Cafasso when he visits the prisons in the city and to check the condition of children. After some of the visits, Don Bosco devoted himself to rescue the unfortunate outcasts. After this strong vocation, Don Bosco set up an Oratory and was very eager to take in young boys to take care of them. By February, 1842, the Oratory had about 20 boys , by March, 30 boys, By 1846, Don Bosco had about 500 kids every Sunday to go to mass. The Oratory was finally called to oratory of St. Fransis de Sales because he admired the gentle holiness of the great saint.

On 1850, there was another project for Don Bosco. There was a little boy who said was all alone in the world because his father was already dead and his mother died to let the creditors take the farm. As Don Bosco listened to the story, Don Bosco decided to take in the orphan and made his first orphanage. After the first orphan, there were more orphans who came and Don Bosco bought a house that connected to the shed where Don Bosco lived. On 1853, he took Margaret's kitchen to a cobbler and the carpenter shop. The teachers to help the children were Don Bosco himself and two hired men. After that, the whole place became a project and was called the Don Bosco Trade School. Now the Don Bosco Trade School is now a very successful chain of schools in nations like the United States and many other underdeveloped nations. When Don Bosco died on January 31, 1888 and was a very special person to the people of the world and especially the children. On the final moments of the Savior of Children, he got his sons and begged for three things from them. Devote to the Blessed Sacrament, Devotion to the Mary Help of Christians, and to Devote to the Father. When Don Bosco died, with his last words being with Mary and God and the people of Turin wept for their beloved Don Bosco left a legacy. His ideals, spirit, and constant activity are what the Salesian Community what they are. On April 1, 1934, Pope Pius XI canonized Don Bosco as a saint and styled him as a giant of sanctity. As a result, St. Don Bosco is recognized as a savior and helper of children after his religious and holy life with children.Don Bosco would especially show the catholic part of the Church. Since catholic means Universal, Don Bosco lead children from everywhere, place, or age. Bosco only cared about the safety of the children and did not matter if the children was an orphan or that he was hurt in a way. As another mark of the church, he was very Apostolic. He followed the teachings of the apostles.