Don Bosco was an Italian priest and educator, founded the Congregation of the Salesians and the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, and Pope Pius XI canonized him in 1934.Giovanni Woods was born August 16, 1815 at Becchi Colle, a town near Castelnuovo d \ ‘ Asti, now Castelnuovo Don Bosco. Poor family is prepared, including hardships and obstacles, work and study, the mission that had been indicated by a dream to \ ‘age of nine times and confirmed later in 1831 moved to straordinario.Nel Chieri to attend public schools and after the seminar. These were years of sacrifices, but also crucial to his education: sixteen arrived, country boy, part twenty-six from Chieri strong spiritually, culturally preparato.Negli years he was in Turin, where he received March 29, 1841 \ ’s order of the diaconate, May 26 began a retreat in preparation for the priesthood who received June 5, 1841 in Chapel \ ’s Archbishopric of Torino.Diventato priest, received some proposals work from friends and acquaintances, to reward him and his family made sacrifices, the wanted as a tutor or as a chaplain in Genoa. But he refused to accept these functions for both its own inclination to \ ‘humility, both lighted homilies Joseph Cafasso, who accused the priests of gluttony and greed, both for the mother of Margaret peremptory assertion: “If misfortune to become rich, will never put foot in your house. “At the invitation of Cafasso, decided to enter early November 1841, at boarding school in Turin, a former convent near the church of St. Francis of Assisi. In this building the theologian Luigi Guala, helped by the already mentioned Cafasso, 45 young priests preparing to become priests of the time and society where they are living. The preparation lasted three anni.Ispirato the news about Don Giovanni Cocchi, who a few years before him had tried to gather all \ ’s Oratory of underprivileged children in Turin, John Bosco decided to go down the streets of his city and observe what state of decay were the youth of tempo.Insieme Don Cafasso began to visit prisons and horrified by the degradation in which they lived aged between 12 and 18 years, gnawed by insects and eager to eat a miserable pittance . After many days of antagonism, the prisoners decided to approach the priest, telling him their lives and their agony. Don Bosco knew that those kids would go to ruin without a guide, and then made her promise that as soon as they would get out of jail, they would have reached the church of San Francesco.Nell \ ’s Fall \ ‘1844 communicated to Don Joseph Cafasso Don Bosco to pack because they had become established that the director \ ’s Hospital of Santa Filomena. Don Cafasso would in fact did know that his young friend with Don John Borel, a priest tied to the king himself, who could help financially in the management \ ’s Oratory. He would later become the director of the official associazione.Il April 12, 1846, Easter Sunday, Don Bosco finally found a place for her kids, a roof with a piece of grass: the shed Pinardi Valdocco.Nel 1854 at Don Bosco began the Salesian Society, with which ensured the stability of his work and his spirit for years to come. Ten years later, laid the first stone of the shrine of Mary Ausiliatrice.Nel 1872, Santa Maria Domenica Mazzarello, founded \ ’s Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, with the aim of educating, with the same spirit, Youth femminile.Nel 1875 the first missionary expedition departed for \ ‘Argentina, land of the great Italian migration \’ s nineteenth century. Don Bosco founded the Cooperators meanwhile, taken by Don Bosco himself as the “Salesians Outside.” The second shipment, just a year later, November 14, 1876, led to land another group of Salesians. Don Francis led them Bodrato. With them was opened, also in Buenos Aires, a school of arts and crafts, where they formed tailors, carpenters, legatori.Altro staff arrived with the third missionary expedition in 1877. This time, along with the Salesians arrived the first Daughters of Mary Woods died at Ausiliatrice.Don \ ‘dawn of January 31, 1888. The educational message is condensed around three words: reason, religion, kindness. At the base of his system prior there was a deep love for young people, key to all his work educativa.Il June 2, 1929 Pope Pius XI beatified him, declaring holy l \ ‘1 April 1934, Easter Sunday.