In this episode, we cover the resolution of a historical mystery. Don Bosco had a vision of the Blessed Mother in which she indicated the exact location of where two martyrs of the Theban Legion were executed near Turin. She showed him how to weather all the storms that would batter him so that he could establish his Oratory over that exact blessed spot.
Our story begins in 1845. The Marchioness Barolo had given permission to house Don Bosco’s Oratory boys in the Refugio near her brand new hospital of St. Philomena until it officially opened in August. The oratory boys stayed at the refuge for seven months, but when July came, Don Bosco realized that they were in deep trouble and had nowhere else to go.
The Marchioness Barolo was firm in her resolve to kick them out, though she was a kind woman and looked favorably on any work of charity, but this was too much: the boys were causing trouble. Don Bosco retorted that he was ready to suffer any discomfort rather than abandon his young men. Nothing was resolved by this exchange and as darkness fell that evening, darkness and desolation descended upon the saint himself.
But strange and intricate dreams came to comfort him during the whole of that night, as he recounted once to Don Giulio Barberis on February 2, 1875.
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