Don Bosco, the founder the Salesian Congregation
The future founder of the Salesians (who are now in over 130 countries around the world) was born in a small farmhouse in the Becchi hamlet, in the municipality of Castelnuovo d ‘Asti (today Castelnuovo Don Bosco) on 16 August 1815 to Francesco Bosco and Margherita Occhiena, both farmers. Having lost his father at the […]