Who is St. John Bosco?

13/02/2025 10 min

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Episode Synopsis

Imagine this….You are a young boy in Turin, Italy in the 19th century, just after the Industrial Revolution has swept across the country. Your parents send you to the big city to work at a factory and make a little extra money that you can send home to the farm. During the day you work for 12 hours in an unsafe factory with no restrictions or protections and at night you roam the streets with a gang of other boys stirring up trouble without anyone to care for you. One day you are playing cards and gambling when this flash of black runs by and steals the pot of money! To your surprise, this flash of black was a priest what is even more shocking is that this seemingly older man is outrunning you as y ohh give chase!Meet St. John Bosco, the priest who never lost a race against a teen and turned wild wolves into hounds for the Lord.