THE APOSTLE OF YOUTH
Bosco, the twentieth after his happy death, January 31, 1908.
Cardinal Richelmy of Turin and Cardinal Maffi of Pisa presided amid a concourse of Prelates, clergy and distinguished laity. The solemn functions of the Church were carried out with a magnificence worthy of the occasion. Eloquent panegyrics of St. Francis of Sales and the Venerable Don Bosco were followed by musical performances of a high order, the opening one being a musical setting of a poem for the day by Father Lemoyne, the biographer of Don Bosco. Massed choirs with orchestra gave classical selections, and addresses were made in the various languages representing the lands in which Don Bosco's work flourishes: these poetic or prose gems were read in Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Bohemian, German, Polish, Russian, Slavonic, Hungarian, Roumanian, Croatz, Arabic and Indian, all effusions of grateful hearts and cultured and appreciative minds.
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