Saint John Bosco (1815–1888)
Author of Forty Dreams Of St. John Bosco: From St. John Bosco's Biographical Memoirs
About the Author
Image credit: St. John Bosco and Youth, Franziskanerkloster Innichen, Innichen, S. Tyrol, Italy. Image by user JJ55 / Wikimedia Commons.
Works by Saint John Bosco
Forty Dreams Of St. John Bosco: From St. John Bosco's Biographical Memoirs (1996) — Author — 159 copies, 1 review
Memoirs of the Oratory of Saint Francis de Sales from 1815 to 1855 : the autobiography of Saint John Bosco (1989) 13 copies
Storia sacra — Author — 6 copies
Historia Sagrada 4 copies
Virtue and Christian refinement according to he spirit of St. Vincent de Paul : or, A month's devotion to St. Vincent (2017) 3 copies
Vita di san Pancrazio 2 copies
Eastern Zombie Society 2 copies
Scritti spirituali - v. 2 1 copy
Memorias del oratorio 1 copy
Vademecum cristiano. Manuale di guerra per essere fedeli a Cristo nella società dell'apostasia (2021) 1 copy
Scritti spirituali/1 1 copy
Vita dei sommi pontefici s. Ponziano, s. Antero e s. Fabiano per cura del sacerdote Bosco Giovanni 1 copy
The Taming of Mickey Magone 1 copy
Il giovane provveduto 1 copy
História Eclesiástica. 1 copy
Maxximum 1 copy
História Eclesiástica 1 copy
Associated Works
The Divine Office, Volume 1: Daily Prayer for Advent, Christmastide and Weeks 1-9 (1974) — Contributor — 190 copies, 1 review
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume III: The Weeks of the Year 6 - 34) (1974) — Contributor — 69 copies
Witness of the Saints: Patristic Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours (2012) — Contributor — 25 copies, 1 review
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Saint John Bosco
- Other names
- Don BOSCO,
Giovanni Melchiorre BOSCO,
Giovanni BOSCO, - Birthdate
- 1815-08-16
- Date of death
- 1888-01-31
- Burial location
- Tomb of St. John Bosco, Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians, Turin, Italy
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Sardinia
Italy - Birthplace
- Castelnuovo d'Asti, Piedmont, Italy
- Place of death
- Turin, Italy
- Places of residence
- Castelnuovo d'Asti, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia
Turin, Italy - Occupations
- priest
teacher - Organizations
- Roman Catholic Church
Society of St. Francis de Sales - Awards and honors
- Canonized (by Pope Pius XI on Easter Sunday, 1934)
- Short biography
- 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.
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Reviews
The Life of Saint Dominic Savio by St. John Bosco
Excellent description in saint's own words of various dreams, their interpretation and meaning he gave them, with discernment. This is an excellent source of dream life and how to discern, by reading St. John Bosco's words and ways. Plus, there was the spiritual instructive element in what the dreams revealed as far as our own spiritual lives and the reality of God's expectations and how we live our daily lives. I suppose the only negative was that for whatever reason, it is not a book that I found easy to read from cover to cover. Took thought, of course! Perhaps it was the saint's style of description? Or might have been my own lack. Probably that. However, the significance of a saint's dreams and his ability to interpret helps much with mystics who dream as part of their spiritual guidance in their own lives or the prophetic dreams they might have involving others. Dreams are not to be discounted but to be sifted and considered.… (more)
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