BLESSED

JOHN BOSCO?
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WHO WAS BLESSED

JOHN BOSCO?

£Ty LESSED John Bosco was born

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nuovo not far from Turin, Italy.

Some secret call from the Most High

had made him say while yet a child:

“If I could be a priest I would dev-

ote my whole life to the welfare of
the young. I should call them around

me; ive should be the best of friends;

I should instruct them and exert oJl

my energies to gain them eternal

salvation.”

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and a few weeks sufficed to draw

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hundreds of children around him. He
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established first in Italy and then

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abroad. Festive Oratories, day and
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evening schools, homes for poor Chil-
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dren, schools of Arts and Trades,
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churches for the people, establish-

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ments for emigrants and missions
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for the conversion of the heathens.

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Salesian missionary labors, because j

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there is no region on this globe that I

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is not dotted with Salesian mission- I

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ary stations, from the virgin forests I

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of Brazil and Equador to the frozen
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ostolic of China, Australia, India, I

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Siam, Japan, and to the missions of 1

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Belgian Congo, Egypt, Tunis, and

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1. The Society of St. Francis of I

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Sales, or the Salesian Fathers who i

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study to follow in his steps and car- !

f ry on his work of zeal and charity, i

2. The Institute of the Daughters
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f of Mary Help of Christians, which is
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a Society of nuns who do the same
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i thers do for boys.
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3. To carry on these works, Bless-
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sociation of Salesian Co-operators.”

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They assist the Salesians by prayers f

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and alms.
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A MAN OF GOD, whose extraor-
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dinary virtues and inestimable bene-
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fits, brought upon Christian society,
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have been recognized by the Church,
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choice of her children.

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