Memorial
Saint John Bosco
- Feast day
- January 31
- Origin
- Italian
Patron of
- youth and apprentices
Life
In nineteenth-century Turin, John Bosco devoted his life to poor and abandoned boys, founding the Salesians to educate and care for disadvantaged youth. His preventive system, grounded in reason, religion, and kindness, transformed thousands of young lives. Canonized in 1934, he is the beloved patron of youth and apprentices.
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