THE VENERABLE DON BOSCO
emotion as he beheld a dumb and paralytic child, Josephine Longhi, brought to him by her mother, suddenly walk and talk at his bidding. Count Giletta, formerly a deputy, now debating as to a religious vocation, was awaiting his turn to see Don Bosco. As the sorrowing mother bore the afflicted child into the priest's ante-chamber, he arose, and going to her, yielded up his place and took the lowest rank in the line of petitioners. Then he prayed: "O Mary, Help of Christians, if thou healest this child it shall be unto me a sign of God's will." The child came out from Don Bosco's presence leaping and laughing. "Don Bosco has cured me," she said, while all flocked around to caress her. Upon witnessing this extraordinary effect of sanctity, Count Giletta no longer hesitated but at once offered himself to Don Bosco and lived and died holily in the Salesian Order. And later Josephine became a devout Salesian Sister.
I must relate one more marvel, among many which were wrought in bringing the new church to completion, for it was three years in building. It happened on November 16, 1866. Four thousand francs were required that evening and Don Bosco had not one centime. Don Rua and others made a circuit of the country round in the morning; they returned with only one thousand francs, declaring that to spend any more time in begging was useless. "Never mind," said Don Bosco, "let us go to dinner."
The repast over, he took his hat and started for
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