Maria Domenica Mazzarello
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Maria Domenica Mazzarello, FMA was an Italian Catholic nun who co-founded the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco.
Maria Mazzarello card
Mazzarelli, the place where Maria Mazzarello was born
Valponasca, the place where Maria Mazzarello spent her childhood
Collegio, the first community of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians
John Bosco
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John Melchior Bosco, SDB, popularly known as Don Bosco, was an Italian Catholic priest, educator, and writer. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the ill effects of industria
Maria Domenica Mazzarello
…thin and frail; a shell of her formerly robust self. She took an apprenticeship as a seamstress in the town and worked diligently at the craft. Like John Bosco, the skills which she learned in her youth, she was able to pass on to those who would come after her. After she recovered from her illness, in the…
Bosco in 1880
Depiction of Bosco as a little preacher repeating the Sunday Sermon
Photograph of Bosco, c. 1887
Bosco (sitting at right) during a visit to Barcelona in 1886