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St John Bosco

Giovanni Melchior Bosco (or Don Bosco) was born in I Becchi on august 16^th 1815 in a very poor family. He lost his father when he was a little older than 2 years old; his mother, Margaret Bosco, had to take the leading place of the family. John learned to read and write with the priest of a near village, Calosso, although the lessons were few, he had a retentive that impressed the priest, but Jhon’s brother Anthony used to unregard him and called him to the field remembering John he was a shepherd.

When he was 20 years old, he went to the seminary and after four years of study he was ordained priest on the Eve of Trinity Sunday By Archbishop Franzoni of Turin. Turin was the place where John found what he was meant to be, his reason to live or to die for, the rescue of the unfortunate young men of the evil in the world.

He decided to found an institution called The Oratory where the youth could spend hours singing, dancing, eating and learning something good for their spirit, away form robbery, violence, drugs and alcohol. It wasn’t easy for Don Bosco, too many obstacles, the people used to complain saying that only the presence of the Oratory, the screams, the happiness disturbed their peace and tranquility.

Don Bosco died on January 31^st. Along with his sons and all the people who loved him and he built stone by stone the sanctuary to Our Lady, Help of Christians and the Salesian Society, which is all over the world.