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    Saint John Bosco
    Saint John Bosco
    Saint John Bosco
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    Saint John Bosco

    By Bob Lord and Penny Lord

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    Saint John Bosco aka Don Bosco was a Saint in the 19th century in Turin Italy. He has been called the pied piper of Turin due to his gathering all the orphans of the area. Bob and Penny Lord bring you this ebook detailing his life and some of his more famous dreams and visions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJourneys of Faith
    Release dateSep 10, 2010
    ISBN9781452387215
    Saint John Bosco
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    Bob Lord

    Bob and Penny Lord renowned Catholic Authors and hosts on EWTN. They are best known for their media on Miracles of the Eucharist and Many Faces of Mary. They have been dubbed experts on the Catholic Saints. They produced over 200 television programs for EWTN global television network and wrote over 25 books and hundreds of ebooks.

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      Saint John Bosco - Bob Lord

      Saint Don Bosco

      Bob and Penny Lord

      Published by Bob and Penny Lord at Smashwords

      Copyright 2010 Bob and Penny Lord

      Discover other titles by Bob and Penny Lord at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/bobandpennylord

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashword.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author.

      St. John Bosco

      "When you speak or preach,

      always insist on frequent Communion,

      and devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary."

      The Lord sends us special people to handle special needs, at crucial times in the history of our Church and our world.

      From the time of Jesus, the little ones, the children, have been dear to the heart of the Father. We recall the words of Jesus in Scripture, Let the little ones come unto me, and do not hinder them. It is to such as these that the Kingdom of God belongs. (Mk 10:15) Again, He spoke of the children as being important in God’s Plan. For what you have hidden from the learned and the clever, you have revealed to the merest children. (Mt 11:25)

      Children have always been uppermost in the mind of the Father, as they have been helpless and in need of protection. There have been orphans and street urchins from the beginning of time. Over the centuries, the Lord has provided for these little ones, by sending men and women to take care of them.

      An epidemic of exploitation of children began at the end of the eighteenth century, with the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Inventions, such as machines for spinning thread, the power loom, and the steam engine, created a new way of manufacturing goods. It also created a need for massive cheap labor. Families were lured off the farms and brought into the cities to work in factories, under the deception of living a better life.

      In the name of progress, a new term had to be phrased, slums, to accommodate the unbelievably poor living conditions, to which these families were subjected. Mothers and fathers worked long hours, as did the children who were old enough to work. Those children who could not find work, or were too young to work, were left to roam the streets, on their own. Satan had a field day, turning these little ones into street gangs. Left to their own devices, many embraced lives of crime. There was no one to curb their behavior, or focus them in the direction of God. But God is in charge; God is always in charge.

      From God’s vantage point in Heaven, He could see the entire history of civilization, past, present and future. He could see the crisis, building in the lives of His children, in the wake of this new wave of materialism, this frenzy to possess more goods, better goods, no matter what the cost in human lives and souls. God knew, He would have to send a very special person to combat this wholesale evil in the world and save the children. That person would have to be so charismatic, he could draw young and old alike. He had to be able to soften hearts of stone and convince others that the vision, the Lord had given him could be accomplished. He had to have a can do personality. He had to be a mover and shaker. He had to be a super-yes man. He had to be a Don Bosco!

      Don Bosco was God’s gift to the Church of the nineteenth century. He was one of the most powerful men in our Church of that time. The magnetism of Don bosco reached out and touched souls all over the world, even to this present day. He was one of the most multi-faceted diamonds, the Lord has ever given us. In addition to being a pied-piper to the young, attracting

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