Christian feast day: Dominic Savio

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…