THE VENERABLE DON BOSCO
of Mary, Help of Christians. Would to God there were a Don Bosco in every large city throughout the world at the present time! What an amazing transformation we should then see! Would to God we could quickly get the means to have a good Novitiate here in the United States. We need help from the public in every possible way; but if we could launch out an appeal, we would appeal just for missionaries. Men, men, men! Behold the need, behold the solution of the problem: 'How shall we save the children, how shall we restore the families to Christian principles and practice?' Let us daily implore Almighty God to send laborers into His immense vineyard."
And now I close this imperfect study of a great apostle with the words of his Excellency, our Apostolic Delegate, to the Very Rev. Ernest Coppo on the occasion of the Centenary of the Venerable Don Bosco:
"Since four continents have felt the good effects of the beneficent influence of Don Bosco, it is perfectly right that his memory should be solemnly recorded in all places and languages. The confines of his native Piedmont and Italy were too narrow for the full play of his activity, and hence his ardent and suave zeal urged him to seek the salvation of souls beyond the mountains and across the seas. Legions of priests and sisters, his spiritual sons and daughters, animated by his zeal and example, have spread out over the world multiplying his miracles of charity
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