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Dominic Savio, Italian Catholic saint, adolescent student of Saint John Bosco (died 1857)

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Dominic Savio

Italian student and Catholic saint (1842–1857)

Dominic Savio was a 19th-century Italian teenager who was a student of John Bosco and became a Catholic saint. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died at the age of 14, possibly from pleurisy. He was noted for his piety and devotion to the Catholic faith, and…
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John Bosco

19th-century Italian Roman Catholic priest, educator, and writer

John Melchior Bosco, SDB, popularly known as Don Bosco or Dom Bosco, was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the ill effects of industrialization and urbanization, he dedicated his life to the betterment…
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