Don Bosco

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John Melchior Bosco (Italian: Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco; 16 August 1815^[3] – 31 January 1888),^[4][5][6] popularly known as Don Bosco [ˌdɔm ˈbɔsko], was an Italian Roman Catholic priest, educator, and writer of the 19th century. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the ill-effects of industrialization and urbanization, he dedicated his life to the betterment and education of street children, juvenile delinquents, and other disadvantaged youth. He developed teaching methods based on love rather than punishment, a method that became known as the Salesian Preventive System.^[7]

A follower of the spirituality and philosophy of Francis de Sales, Bosco was an ardent devotee of Mary, mother of Jesus, under the title Mary Help of Christians. He later dedicated his works to De Sales when he founded the Salesians of Don Bosco, based in Turin.^[8] Together with Maria Domenica Mazzarello, he founded the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, a religious congregation of nuns dedicated to the care and education of poor girls. He taught Dominic Savio, of whom he wrote a biography that helped the young boy be canonized.

On 18 April 1869, one year after the construction of the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Turin, Don Bosco established the Association of Mary Help of Christians (ADMA) connecting it with commitments easily fulfilled by most common people, to the spirituality and the mission of the Salesian Congregation (CG 24 SDB, 1996, NR. 80). The ADMA was founded to promote the veneration of the Most Holy Sacrament and Mary Help of Christians (Don Bosco, Association of the Devotees of Mary Help of Christians, San Benigno can. 1890, page 33).^[9]

In 1876 Bosco founded a movement of laity, the Association of Salesian Cooperators, with the same educational mission to the poor.^[10] In 1875, he began to publish the Salesian Bulletin.^[11][12] The Bulletin has remained in continuous publication, and is currently published in 50 different editions and 30 languages.^[11]

Bosco established a network of organizations and centers to carry on his work. Following his beatification in 1929, he was canonized as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Pius XI in 1934.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bosco

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Sanje pri devetih letih

Sanje, ki jih je sv. Janez Bosko sanjal pri devetih letih, so ga zaznamovale za vse življenje. Bile so kot nekakšen Božji prst, ki mi je pokazal, kod in kam v življenju. V različnih odtenkih in podrobnostih so se mu še večkrat ponovile. Ko je na starost maševal pri oltarju Marije Pomočnice v cerkvi Srca Jezusovega v Rimu, ki jo je bil na papeževo izrečno željo zgradil, je v povezavi s temi sanjami zatrdil: “Zdaj sem vse razumel”. Sam jih takole pripoveduje:

 

 

	»Ko mi je bilo devet let, sem imel sanje, ki so se mi globoko vtisnile v spomin za vse življenje.«
	V sanjah se mi je zdelo, da sem blizu doma, na precej obširnem dvorišču, na njem pa je bila množica fantov, ki so se igrali. Nekateri so se smejali.
	Ko sem zaslišal kletve, sem se takoj pognal mednje in jih hotel prisiliti k molku s kričanjem in pestmi.
	Tisti hip se je prikazal častitljiv mož, izbrano oblečen. Obličje se mu je tako svetilo, da mi je jemalo vid.
	Poklical me je po imenu in mi dejal: ‘Te svoje prijatelje si boš moral pridobiti s krotkostjo in z ljubeznijo, ne s pretepanjem. Takoj jim prični govoriti o grdobiji greha in o dragocenosti kreposti.’
	Tisti hip sem poleg njega opazil veličastno ženo, oblečeno v plašč, ki se je bleščal kakor sonce. ‘Vidiš, tole je tvoje delovno področje. Postati boš moral ponižen, močan in krepak. Kar boš videl, da se bo v tem hipu zgodilo s temi živalmi, boš moral storiti z mojimi sinovi.’
	Obrnil sem se in glej: namesto podivjanih živali so se prikazali krotki jagenjčki. Poskakovali so in tekali okoli meketaje, kakor da bi hoteli pozdraviti veličastnega moža in čudovito gospo.
	Ko sem se prebudil, je prikazen izginila. Ves sem bil zmeden. Imel sem vtis, da me bolijo roke od pretepanja in da mi obraz žari od klofut.
	Zjutraj sem sanje pripovedoval najprej bratoma, pa sta se mi smejala, potem mteri in babici. ‘Postal boš ovčji pastir,’ je dejal Jože. ‘Poglavar razbojnikov boš,’ je rekel Tone. Mati pa je rekla: ‘Bog ve, ali ne boš postal duhovnik. Babica pa je sklenila: ‘Sanje so prazne marnje.

 

 

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The little-known story of when the Masons tried to kill Don Bosco

                                

 

The little-known story of when the Masons tried to kill Don Bosco | Catholic News Agency

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History notes how much the Freemasons hated St. John Bosco — whose feast the Church celebrates Jan. 31 — but less known are their attempts to kill him.

 

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