BLESSED MADELEINE MORANO
Meets Don Bosco Maddalena Caterina Morano was born in Chieri, in the province of Turin, on the 15th November 1847. Her father Francis died when she was eight and she began to help her mother with her work. Thanks to
BLESSED LAURA VICUÑA
From Chile to Argentina Laura Carmen Vicuña was born in Santiago, in Chile, on the 5th April 1891 to Joseph Domenico and Mercedes Pino. The Vicuña family were Chilean aristocrats, forced into exile by the revolution. They took refuge in
BLESSED PHILIP RINALDI
Joins Don Bosco Born on May 28, 1856, at Lu Monferrato (Alessandria), Philip was won over by Don Bosco at the age of twenty-two. As a priest, he was entrusted with the formation of the aspirants and novices. In 1899
BLESSED BRONISLAUS MARKIEWICZ
A priest for the poor Bronislaws Markiewicz was born on 13 July 1842 in Pruchnik in Galizia (southern Poland), the sixth of eleven children, in a devout lower-middle-class family. Bronislaws faced hunger, poverty and persecution encountered at school because of
BLESSED ALBERT MARVELLI
Oratorian at Rimini Alberto Marvelli was born at Ferrari on 21st March 1918, the second of seven brothers. When he moved to Rimini with the family he began to attend the Salesian Oratory there. He was always available and became
BLESSED MICHAEL RUA
Going halves in everything Born in Turin on June 9, 1837, the youngest of nine children, Michael came to the Oratory in 1852. One day Don Bosco told him: “We will go halves in everything”. He was among the first
BLESSED ARTEMIDES ZATTI
Early life Artemides Zatti was born in Boretto, in the province of Reggio Emilia, on the 12th October 1880, to Louis Zatti and Albina Vecchi, a farming family. Since he was a small child he was accustomed to work and
BLESSED AUGUSTUS CZARTORYSKI
Of royal lineage Augustus Czartoryski was born in Paris on the 2nd August 1858, in exile, to the Polish Prince Ladislaw and Princess Mary Amparo, daughter of the Queen of Spain. Thirty years before, this noble family, tied to Polish
BLESSEDS FRANCISZEK KEŞY AND THE 4 YOUNG MEN
German occupied Poznan The 1st September 1939 Hitler invaded Poland, beginning the Second World War. The Salesian House in Poznan in Wroniecka Street was occupied and turned into a barracks for German soldiers. The young people continued gathering in the
BLESSEDS JOSEPH CALASANZ AND 31 COMPANIONS
Civil war in Spain Between 1936 and 1939 Spain erupted into a bloody and dramatic civil war: It was a conflict which ignited ideological enmities, resulting in a battle between democracy and fascism, between republicans and rebels led by General