Mary, the Help of Christians is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, based on a devotion now associated with a feast day of the General Roman Calendar on 24 May.
The venerated image that Pope Leo XIII granted a Canonical coronation on 13 February 1903. The Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians, Turin.
The venerated namesake image in the Mary Help of Christians Seminary in San Fabian, Pangasinan, crowned by Pope Francis for the Philippines on 22 August 2020.
The Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians, Turin, founded by famed Catholic priest Don Bosco.
The venerated namesake image in Brezje, Radovljica crowned by Pope Pius X for Slovenia, which was decreed a Pontifical coronation in 24 June 1907. Pope John Paul II later raised her shrine to the status of Minor Basilica in 5 October 1988.
John Melchior Bosco, SDB, popularly known as Don Bosco, was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer of the 19th century. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the ill effects of industrialization and urbanization, he dedicated his life to the betterment and education of street children, juvenile delinquents, and other disadvantaged youth. He developed teaching methods based on love rather than punishment, a method that became known as the Salesian Preventive System.
Bosco in 1880
Depiction of Bosco as a little preacher repeating the Sunday Sermon
Photograph of Bosco, c. 1887
Bosco (sit at right) during a visit to Barcelona in 1886
