THE APOSTLE OF YOUTH
and committed for farther scrutiny and consideration to the Sacred Congregation of Rites.
Countless, we might almost say, were the wonders made known during this first Process; they would fill volumes, tributes to Don Bosco's sanctity, from all parts of the world. Extraordinary cures of soul and body, supernatural conversions, marvelous prophecies fulfilled, wrongs righted, reconciliations brought about, reckless sons or daughters led back to duty, divine vocations, especially to the Salesian Orders, in which the finger of God was openly manifest.
The tomb of Don Bosco, their beloved benefactor and wonder-worker, became to the people of Turin a sacred place. There might be seen individuals and groups of fervent pilgrims confiding to him as in life the secrets of their grief, their present needs or their future hopes. And they built on solid rock, secure that he whose heart was a fountain of love, of pity, of refreshment for all the weak and indigent when on earth, whose prevailing prayer ever brought Heaven-sent resources to his redeeming work, was now a still more powerful and loving advocate, his soul immersed in the splendors of the Heart of Jesus, the divine furnace of charity.
Their confidence was superabundantly rewarded; faith and enthusiasm grew as the story of cures and temporal and spiritual prodigies was noised abroad; and little pilgrimages came from the various provinces of Italy, from France, from
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