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...begins one of the most famous of modern ghost stories. "Midnight struck," as Bosco himself later told it, "and I then heard a dull, rolling sound from the end of the passage . . . While the noise came nearer the dormitory, the walls, ceiling and floor of the passage re-echoed and trembled behind it ... The students in the dormitory awoke, but none of them spoke . . . Then the door opened violently of its own accord without anybody seeing anything except a dim light of changing color that seemed to control the sound . . . Then a voice was clearly heard. 'Bosco, Bosco, Bosco...
...John Bosco (1815-88) made a pact with his friend and fellow student Comollo that whoever died first would try to communicate to the other the state of his own soul. Comollo died on April 2, 1839, and on the night of April 3, after the funeral, 23-year-old John Bosco sat waiting on his bed in a dormitory containing 20 other seminarians...
...mayor went to his friend the priest. "What is the good of trying to do anything for Visciano?" he despaired. Don Arturo, the priest, decided to try in his own way. In Piedmont he had seen Venerable Don Bosco's famed institutes for abandoned children, and he had noted that the Waldensians drew Protestant youth from all over Europe and America to build a summer camp in the Alps. "Are you going to let it be said that Protestants build better things than you?" he cried to the Viscianesi. "You have a reputation for never protesting. Are you going...
...award called a "Bosco" was given to June Allyson, "who, with eternally girlish homeiness, an aura of fresh-baked, deep-dish apple pie like Mother used to make, and an endless supply of tears, bravely but vainly attempts to resist the onslaught of the advancing years...
DOMENICO SAVIO (1842-57) told his pastor, at the age of five, that he was big enough to serve Mass. When he was twelve, the frail Italian schoolboy became one of the first pupils of St. John Bosco, founder of the Salesian Soiety and educational pioneer. Domenico died three years later, after "living a full life in 15 years...