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There is a popular legend that 19th-century Italian priest Don Bosco, the founder of the Catholic Salesian Order and a revered saint, had a prophetic dream in 1883 that predicted a flourishing, futuristic city between parallels 15 and 20 in central Brazil. Many Brazilians believe the dream of Dom Bosco, as they call him, found fulfillment in the modern capital city of Brasilia, built between 1956 and 1960. Indeed, even before Brasilia was completed, a shrine, located directly on the 15th parallel, was sculpted and dedicated to Dom Bosco. Today’s Brasilia is filled with references to him, including the Santuario...

             Lives of the Saints   St. Dominic Savio(1842-1857) Italy Died Age 14     Dominic was born on April 2, 1842, the son of a very poor blacksmith.  He went to school near his home for as long as possible.  Later, he walked a six-mile round trip to attend a school in a nearby town.  One day, while the teacher was out of the room, two boys brought in a lot of snow and trash and stuffed it into the only iron stove which was heating the room.  When the teacher returned, he was so angry that the...

Mockery of St John Bosco in the worst Mass ever Is it any wonder when the Salesian Bishop of Linz on the left finds amusing a puppet which is meant to be the founder of his Order, Don Bosco that the Salesians of Don Bosco are in such trouble in Austria?

PROPHETIC STIR CONTINUES OVER DEATH OF ONE POPE AND THE ELEVATION OF ANOTHERA prophetic stir continues under the radar of mass media, and it attaches, of course, to recent events. There was the death of mystic Maria Esperanza of Venezuela, who said that the year 2004 would kick off a series of major events. There were the subsequent hurricanes. There was the tsunami. There was the death of Sister Lucia of Fatima. There was the death of John Paul II -- long linked to the prophetic pulse -- and the elevation of a man who in a striking fashion calls...