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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

John Bosco

1815 - 1888

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John Melchior Bosco, SDB (Italian: Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco; Piedmontese: Gioann Melchior Bòsch; 16 August 1815 – 31 January 1888), popularly known as Don Bosco (IPA: [ˈdɔm ˈbɔsko, bo-]), 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.A follower of the spirituality and philosophy of Francis de Sales, Bosco was an ardent devotee of the Virgin Mary under the title Mary Help of Christians. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Bosco has received more than 1,825,609 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). John Bosco is the 137th most popular religious figure (up from 182nd in 2019), the 152nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 220th in 2019) and the 44th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

John Bosco was a Catholic priest who is most famous for founding a religious order called the Salesians of Don Bosco. The Salesians of Don Bosco are a religious order that helps youth and young adults in need.

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  • 63

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, John Bosco ranks 137 out of 2,238Before him are Pope Pius VIII, Pope Alexander VIII, Pope Pius II, Clare of Assisi, Agnes of Rome, and Pope Leo XII. After him are Pope Pius VI, Saint Blaise, Pope Leo XI, Pope Clement XII, Pope Benedict XIV, and Pope Sixtus V.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, John Bosco ranks 2Before him is Otto von Bismarck. After him are George Boole, Ada Lovelace, Karl Weierstrass, Otto of Greece, Adolph Menzel, Thomas Couture, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Louis-Jules Trochu, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Ildefons Cerdà. Among people deceased in 1888, John Bosco ranks 2Before him is William I, German Emperor. After him are Frederick III, German Emperor, Rudolf Clausius, Carl Zeiss, John Stith Pemberton, Louisa May Alcott, Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria, Nikolay Przhevalsky, Charles-Valentin Alkan, François Achille Bazaine, and Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, John Bosco ranks 152 out of 4,668Before him are Luca Pacioli (1445), Pope Alexander VIII (1610), Pope Pius II (1405), Clare of Assisi (1193), Agnes of Rome (291), and Pope Leo XII (1760). After him are Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Pope Pius VI (1717), Gina Lollobrigida (1927), Tomaso Albinoni (1671), Marcello Mastroianni (1924), and Pope Leo XI (1535).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, John Bosco ranks 44Before him are Pope Pius VIII (1761), Pope Alexander VIII (1610), Pope Pius II (1405), Clare of Assisi (1193), Agnes of Rome (291), and Pope Leo XII (1760). After him are Pope Pius VI (1717), Pope Leo XI (1535), Pope Clement XII (1652), Pope Benedict XIV (1675), Pope Sixtus V (1520), and Pope Martin V (1369).