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Saint John Bosco, Priest (January 31st)

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Of the Saints and Feast Days commemorated this week: January 26th - Saints Timothy and Titus, Bishops January 27th - Saint Angela Merici, Virgin January 28th - Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church January 31st - Saint John Bosco, Priest February 1st - 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time (A) I’ve decided to write about  Saint John Bosco, Priest The future Saint John Bosco , patron saint to youth ministers, and inspired in good part by the work of St. Francis de Sales who lived a few centuries before but in the same region - just on the other side of the Alps - was born to a poor family of laborers (farm hands) on August 16, 1815 in a village called Becchi in the commune (municipality) then called Castelnuovo d'Asti but which has been since renamed Castelnuovo Don Bosco in the saint's honor, in the Piedmont region (capital Turin ) of today's Italy . The youngest son of Francesco Bosco and Margherita Occhiena , his father died when John was two leaving his moth...
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St. Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (January 24th)

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Of the Saints and Feast Days commemorated this week: Jan 20th -- St. Fabian, Pope and Martyr   Jan 20th -- St. Sebastian, Martyr   Jan 21st -- St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr Jan 22nd -- Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children (USA) Jan 23rd -- St. Vincent, Deacon and Martyr Jan 23rd -- St. Marianne Cope, Virgin (USA) Jan 24th -- St. Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church   Jan 25th – THIRD SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (A) Jan 25th -- The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle   I’ve decided to write about St. Francis de Sales . The future St. Francis de Sales was born in 1567 in the Château de Sales into the noble Sales family of the Duchy of Savoy , in what is today Thorens-Glières , Haute-Savoie , in the alpine region France , near the border with Switzerland .   The Château de Sales was destroyed in 1630 by French King Louis XIII during France’s invasion of Savoy after the Sales family refused to submit to the (new) French ord...
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St. Hilary of Poiters, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (January 13th)

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Of the Saints commemorated this week: Jan 12 - St. Anthony Pucci, OSM, Priest, Religious (OSM) Jan 13 – St. Hilary of Poiters, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Jan 15 – Blessed James the Almsgiver, (OSSM) Jan 17 – St. Anthony of the Desert, Abbot I have chosen to write about St. Hilary of Poiters, Bishop and Doctor of the Church . The future St. Hilary was born into a fairly wealthy pagan family at the end of the 3rd century or near the beginning of  the 4th century A.D. in the town of Poiters , in today’s west-central France .   The town’s history goes back to the Celtic, pre-Roman era when it was founded as a hill fort (oppidium) that the Romans first called Oppidium Lemonum (after apparently a grove of elm trees).  Later the town came to be known as Pictavium after the Celtic tribe, the Pictones , who first lived there. During the Roman era, the town apparently became quite wealthy sporting three aqueducts, a Roman bath complex and a very large amphitheater. T...
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