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About St. John Bosco

Founder of the Salesian Society. Born of poor parents in a little cabin at Becchi, a hill-side hamlet near Castelnuovo, Piedmont, Italy, 16 August, 1815; died 31 January 1888; declared Venerable by Pius X, 21 July, 1907. [Note: Pope Pius XI beatified him in 1929 and canonized him in 1934.]

When he was little more than two years old his father died, leaving the support of three boys to the mother, Margaret Bosco. John's early years were spent as a shepherd and he received his first instruction at the hands of the parish priest. He possessed a ready wit, a retentive memory, and as years passed his appetite for study grew stronger. Owing to the poverty of the home, however, he was often obliged to turn from his books to the field, but the desire of what he had to give up never left him. In 1835 he entered the seminary at Chieri and after six years of study was ordained priest on the eve of Trinity Sunday by Archbishop Franzoni of Turin.

Parish History

St. John Bosco Parish Staff

SVD Community

Rev. Andre Grecki, Rev Joseph Miras, and Rev. Augustine Villanueva belong to a religious congregation known as the SVD which stands for SOCIETATIS VERBI DIVINI (in Latin) or Society of the Divine Word or Missionaries of the Divine Word (in English).

         There are more than 6,000 SVD religious missionaries, priests and brothers, working in more than 67 countries and on every continent except Antartica.

         At present the Society of the Divine Word is the only major congregation of religious men which has shown steady growth over the last 30 years.

If you want to know more about the SVD, please visit the following websites:
www.divineword.org
www.svdmissions.org

         Young men who feel called to serve God and his people in a special way: as a diocesan priest or as a religious priest or brother may want to speak to a priest to help them in their discernment process.

If you are interested to become a diocesan priest, please visit: www.vocationstoronto.ca

If you are interested to join the Society of the Divine Word, please visit: www.svdvocations.org

Location

Located in Midtown Toronto, one block east of Dufferin. On the Corner of Rogers Rd. and Westmount Ave.

402 Westmount Ave
Toronto, ON M6E 3N6