St. Dominic Savio
May 6, 2019
Don Bosco Cristo Rey,
Takoma Park, Md.
Altho Dominic's dies natalis is March 9, the Salesian Family celebrates his feast on May 6 since March 9 always falls during Lent.
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One of the most traditional images of Dominic Savio.
There are no sketches of him from life.
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Dominic
is one of the young saints highlighted by Pope Francis in Christus vivit (n. 56). The Holy Father cites Don Bosco’s guidance of
him. He was wise enuf to seek a sure
guide and to obey that guide even when Don Bosco’s guidance ran counter to his
own instincts, and even tho there were times when Don Bosco was completely
mystified by the boy’s spiritual gifts.
The
Holy Father also cites Dominic’s last words:
“Oh! I’ve never seen anything so lovely!”[1] We don’t know what he saw, obviously, but we
may guess it was heaven opening up before him as he made his passage from
Mondonio to eternity. The youngster
prepared for that passage and its lovely vision all his life by keeping his
eyes focused on his friends Jesus and Mary, on fulfilling his duties, on being
of service to his companions in Don Bosco’s house.
We
don’t have to be adolescents to learn from the precocious wisdom of this boy
whom Pius XII called “a giant of sanctity.”
[1] “Oh! che bella cosa io vedo mai,”
according to DB’s biography in Fonti salesiane
(Rome: LAS, 2014), 1:1082.
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