Our Saints & Patrons
The Church has recognized many people in the Salesian Family as outstanding models in holiness and deserving the titles of Saint, Blessed, Venerable, or Servant of God. Their lives were all oriented toward the same goal, which is the greater glory of God and the salvation of souls. The lives of our Saints and Patrons exemplify some of the greatest virtues and reveals to us the image of God through their examples.
St. John Bosco
St. John Bosco
St. John Bosco is often referred to as Don Bosco - “Don Bosco” means “Father Bosco” in Italian. Don Bosco was a man of bold courage. He was the instrument which God used to found a religious family...
St. Mary Mazzarello
St. Mary Mazzarello
Mary Domenica Mazzarello was a contemporary of Don Bosco. Her parents, Joseph and Mary Magdalene, were proud of their eldest daughter. Mary learned common sense and deep faith from her parents...
St. Francis de Sales
St. Francis de Sales
St. Francis de Sales Francis was destined by his father to be a lawyer so that the young man could eventually take his elder’s place as a senator for the province of Savoy in France...
St. Joseph
St. Joseph
Salesian devotion to St. Joseph originated with St. Francis de Sales, who made St. Joseph the patron of the monasteries. Francis de Sales gave a spiritual conference on “The Virtues of St. Joseph,”...
St. Artemides Zatti
St. Artemides Zatti
St. Artémides Zatti was a Salesian nurse and brother who for fifty years devoted himself to the care of the poor and sick...
St. Theresa of Avila
St. Theresa of Avila
St. Teresa of Avila, also known as St. Teresa of Jesus, was a prominent Spanish mystic, a reformer of the Carmelite Order...
Blessed Laura Vicuna
Blessed Laura Vicuna
Blessed Laura Vicuna Laura was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1891. Laura's father died suddenly when she was still just a small child. Mrs. Vicuna, with her two daughters, sought refuge in Argentina...
Blessed Zeferino Namuncura
Blessed Zeferino Namuncura
Zeferino was born August 26, 1886 at Chimpay, on the banks of the Rio Negro in Patagonia, Argentina and was baptized two years later. His father Manuel was the last of the great chiefs of the Araucano Indian tribe...
St. Dominic Savio
St. Dominic Savio
A little, or rather, "a great giant of the Spirit" Dominic was born on April 2, 1842, in San Giovanni di Riva, near Chieri (Turin)...
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