The Venerable Don Bosco the Apostle of Youth

by M. S. PINE ( - )

Don Bosco's Protector, Grigio

The Venerable Don Bosco the Apostle of Youth

This brief sketch of the holy life and marvelous achievements of a great inheritor of the spirit of Saint Francis of Sales, Saint Don Bosco is intended only to stimulate souls to a wider study of this loving Apostle of Youth, and so to a knowledge and reverence and appreciation, we dare to hope, which will urge them onward in the ways of holiness, and make them ardent and practical co-operators in the divine work of saving the young — the most pressing need of our times — initiated by the Founder of the Salesian Society, and brought to wonderful issues through the miraculous power of God and the loving intervention of Mary, Help of Christians. Saint John Bosco was canonized in 1934 – thus in this book, which was published in 1916, he in only referred to as Venerable. (Summary adapted from the forward of the book)


Listen next episodes of The Venerable Don Bosco the Apostle of Youth:
A Retrospect. Don Michael Rua, Superior General , After Death , Church of the Sacred Heart in Rome. Don Bosco in Spain. , Death of Mama Margaret , Don Bosco in France , Don Bosco is Declared Venerable , Don Bosco's Literary Works. Printing Plant. The Salesian Bulletin , Don Bosco's Relations with His Co-operators , Don Paul Albera. The Present Status of the Society , Failure in Health. Letter to His Co-operators. Seminary of Foreign Missions , First Foreign Mission. The Argentine Republic. Don Cagliero , French Pilgrims Visit Don Bosco. Other Visits. Prophecies , Interior Life of Don Bosco. His Devotion to Mary, Help of Christians , Loyalty to the Pope in Life and Death. The Closing Scene , Papal Approbation of the Rules and Constitutions. The Spirit of St. Francis of Sales Dominates , Plan of Studies. Some Remarkable Pupils of Don Bosco , Purchase of Valdocco Property. Church of St. Francis of Sales. The Cholera , The Historian of Don Bosco, Don Lemoyne , The Immaculate Conception. A Catechism Class. Signor Urbain Ratazzi. Prisoners , The New Basilica. Don Bosco a Thaumaturgus , The Salesian Apostolate in Patagonia , The Salesian Co-operators , The Salesian Order in the United States: Eulogy of Don Bosco by the Apostolic Delegate , The Salesian Schools. Don Bosco Persecuted. Testimonials of Government Officials , The Venerable Don Bosco's Last Will and Testament Addressed to the Salesian Co-operators , Two Pictures. The Salesian Co-operators , Vocations Multiply. Orginization of the Salesian Society. Mary Mazzarello