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St. Elias is credited with performing the first resurrection on the only son of a widow.

“[He] cried to the Lord, and said: O Lord my God, let the soul of this child, I beseech thee, return into his body. And the Lord heard the voice of Elias: and the soul of the child returned into him, and he revived” (I Kings, 17: 21-23).

It is recorded in the New Testament that Our Lord, Jesus Christ, raised Lazarus and the daughter of Jairus from the dead, but have you ever of heard of Saint John Bosco resurrecting anyone?

This highlight of Don Bosco’s life is what we will be covering in today’s episode of “The Miracles and Prophecies of Saint John Bosco,” a project of America Needs Fatima.

This account was written by Joseph Brosio to Father John Bonetti and subsequently documented and released to the public.

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Minute 1:10:30.

St. John Bosco was greatly admired by young people because they continually witnessed his great virtues and were sure that he was a true friend of God. They regarded him as a living Gospel, a model priest and a faithful portrait of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Young and old boarders and non-boarders, in the Oratory School for boys, attributed to him the power of doing wonderous things, and even miracles, to which they readily testified. As the years went by, they never lost that conviction. Hundreds of them have talked about things they saw or were told about by companions.

Today, I’m going to recount to you a series of miracles performed by this great saint for our times, transmitted to us in writing and collected by Fr. Chiala.

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Today, we have two stories that demonstrate Don Bosco’s “discernment of spirits.” That is, his ability to read a soul in order to do good. In the confessional, when God permitted, he knew exactly what to say and how to act in order to convert hardened sinners.

He would even have premonitions of what was going to happen to people and would accordingly advise them on future events in their life.

One of the stories will definitely convince you to never embark upon a long journey without first saying your prayers for the trip. Seat belts are one thing, but having the protection of God is far more important, as we shall soon see.

These events in Saint John Bosco’s life, help us to understand the serious need for prayer and devotion to our holy guardian angels, who are so frequently forgotten in the rush of our daily lives. I pray that you receive the grace to become more devoted to the angels in imitation of this great saint’s life.

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There was a time in the beginning of Don Bosco's priestly life where almost everyone around him thought that he had lost his mind. He devoted so much time to his apostolate with delinquent street boys and talked so frequently of buying a massive Oratory that, as we shall see in today’s episode, they tried to send him to an insane asylum.

What had happened to Our Lord Jesus Christ occurred with Don Bosco: “The crowd so surrounded him that he could not even take food. Having heard such things, his own people seized him, saying: ‘He has gone mad’ (Mark 3:20-21).

But Don Bosco outwitted his dissenters in a way that is the material of legends.

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The uncertainty of our lives can be terrifying when faced with life altering decisions. We sometimes feel that God could never bring good out of the situation we're in, so we fear and we tremble.

This was not Saint John Bosco’s attitude. He knew that God would provide for him in his bold plans for his Oratory school for boys. He behaved fearlessly with a conviction that only can be found in those who seek to do the right thing.

In today’s story, I want to show you how a saint acts when no one believes in him and is abandoned by everyone, simply for trying to accomplish his God given mission.

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There was once a time when Saint John Bosco couldn’t afford a decent chalice for Mass at his Oratory School for boys. One night, he was told during a dream that someone had placed a sufficient sum in his trunk. The next day as he walked into town to take care of some business, the dream resurfaced in his mind and he was so excited, that he went back home to rummage through his trunk. He found eight lire—precisely the sum needed to buy the chalice. No stranger could have put it there because the chest was permanently closed. His mother Margaret had no money to make such surprises and was greatly astonished when she heard about it.

This is just a small example of the authenticity and power of Don Bosco’s visions sent by God mostly while he was asleep, in the form of dreams. Visions in his life were abundant, but today we’re going examine one in particular, where Our Lady appeared and explained how we can know if we’re on the path to Heaven or Hell.

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We read in the sacred Bible and ecclesiastical history that sometimes God uses beasts in extraordinary ways to defend and benefit his servants. As the prophet Elisha was taunted by a brigade of irreligious and insolent youths, behold two bears descended out of a nearby forest and wrought havoc among them. For seventy years, a desert raven brought food daily to St. Paul the Hermit, the first founder of solitary life. St. Anthony needed to bury the corpse of a desert dweller but lacked the tools to dig his grave. Whereupon two lions appeared, dug it with their paws to the correct size, and departed like meek lambs after the saint blessed them.

When St. John Bosco was in severe danger, Divine Providence deigned to provide him with a singular bodyguard: a large and beautiful gray dog that has been and will be the subject of many rumors and suppositions. There were several young men who saw him, petted him, and learned memorable details about his saga.

In this episode, we recount some of the best stories from their reports.

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Over a hundred times in St. John Bosco’s life, God would communicate to him through visions at night while he slept. He would later relate them to his Oratory boys conveying the lessons he learned and would refer to them as dreams, though oftentimes during these experiences he felt that they were entirely real.

Today we’re going to hear the saint’s dream about satanic cats that hindered his oratory boys from making a good confession...

'At that point, I saw here and there young men with a noose around their necks squeezing their throats and I asked:

“Why do you have that noose? Take it off.”

They did not answer but just stared at me.

“Help,” I told someone, “take that noose off.”

The young man answered:

“I can’t take it off; someone behind me is holding it. Come and see for yourself.”

I focused carefully on that multitude of young men and saw two very long horns protruding

behind the shoulders of many. I got a little closer to get a better look. Turning around the back of the one closest to me, I saw clutching the noose an ugly, big cat-shaped beast with long horns and a hideous snout. It lowered its snout and hid between its paws, crouching as if to avoid being seen. I asked the young man and others for their names, but they would not answer. I questioned the ugly animal, and it hid even more. So, I said to a young man:

“Look, go to the sacristy and tell its director, Fr. Merlone, to give you the holy water pail!”'

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All Catholics would like to know that their deceased loved ones actually made it to heaven, but would you be willing to have them actually appear to you? To have their soul return to tell you whether they are in Heaven… or Hell?

I would’ve said yes, before I heard this hair-raising story....

"At the stroke of midnight, I heard at the bottom of the hall a gloomy noise that became louder and more somber as it approached. It sounded like a cart pulled by many horses or a railroad train, almost like a canon firing. I could not describe it except that it formed a complex of such vibrating and violent rumblings to cause great fright and render everyone speechless.

As the noise approached the dormitory door, it rattled walls and the corridor floor as if they were iron plates shaken by a most potent arm. One could not measure the dwindling distance between it and us. It was like a steam engine leaving, and it was sometimes impossible to know where it is in its course amid the smoke it spread through the air."

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You may already be familiar with Saint John Bosco, a 19th century priest who ran an oratory for boys in Turin, but did you know anti-catholic sects made many attempts on his life?

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This video will tell two stories of assassination attempts made on one of the finest men that ever lived.

But why would this happen? Why were the masons so intent on murdering Don Bosco? Why did they hate him so much?

These questions are what this entire YouTube channel seeks to answer. Saint John Bosco was a jewel in our history, a model of piety and a ferocious warrior against the enemies of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. We’ll attempt to analyze all the facets of his pious life.

Prophet, diplomat, miracle worker, counselor, visionary, devotee of Our Lady, prolific writer, role model for wayward boys, founder of the Salesians, priest, rock of scandal, warrior against heresies…

I could go on and on, but it all can be summed up by the phrase “Christianus alter Christus” -- he was Christ-like. He’s the patron saint of apprentices, editors, publishers, schoolchildren, magicians, and wayward children.

An attempt was made by the Salesians to document his daring deeds for Christ, which resulted in 19 large volumes and are the primary source material for our channel.

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The more we learn of and admire the saintly aspects of Don Bosco the more we’ll be like him in our own lives.

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