Quotations by Don Bosco

John Bosco (Italian: Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco; 16 August 1815 – 31 January 1888), popularly known as Don Bosco, was an Italian Roman Catholic priest of the Latin Church, educator and writer of the 19th century. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the 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. A follower of the spirituality and philosophy of Saint Francis de Sales, Bosco dedicated his works to him when he founded the Salesians of Don Bosco, based in Turin. 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.

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

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

Actions
Adoption
Advice
Almsgiving
Angels
Anger
Blasphemy
Blessed Sacrament
Books / Readings
Charity
Cheerfulness
Church, Building
Church, Catholic
Coadjutors
Communion, Holy
Companions
Confession / Confessors
Corrections, Fraternal
Courage
Dead, The / Death/Dying
Devil, The / Demons
Don Bosco (about himself)
Education / Educating
Exercise for a Happy Death, The
Faith
Faults
Forgiveness
Fun, Holy
Good Night, The
Grace
Gratitude
Health, Bodily / Spiritual
Heaven
Hell
Honesty
Humility
Idleness
Love
Mary, Blessed Virgin
Mary, Help of Christians
Mass, The Holy
Mercy
Miracles
Missions, The
Mortification
Music
Obedience
Parents
Passions, The Human
Patience
Peace
Persecution
Perseverance
Piety
Politics
Pope, The
Poverty, Spirit of
Prayer
Pride
Priests/Priesthood/Clerics
Procrastination
Providence, Divine
Prudence
Punishments
Purgatory
Purity
Recreation
Religion
Resolutions
Rest
Retreat

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