THE APOSTLE OF YOUTH
not find entrance. They returned early the next day, and Sister Adèle, kneeling by Don Bosco, took his hand and with it touched her eyes. Immediately her sight was restored. "I see Don Bosco!" she cried aloud twice. "I see you; Don Bosco has cured me." Her sight was perfect ever after.
One of the boys at the Oratory became seriously ill. Through the kindness of the Superiors, his mother was allowed to nurse him there. On February 1, being at the point of death, he suddenly looked up and his eyes became fixed on some object at the door.
"Mother," he said, turning to her, "did you see him?"
"Who?" questioned the mother.
"Don Bosco," he replied.
"Surely not; Don Bosco is dead and his body is lying in the Church."
"Well, I saw him," insisted the boy. "He came to tell me that in three days he will come to take me with him to Heaven."
"No, you will not die yet; you must get better and come home with me."
"What for, mother? Is it not better to go to Heaven?"
The mother was broken-hearted, and resolved to take him away from the Oratory. This news afflicted the sick child. "Why must I leave the Oratory?" he lamented. "I want to die under the mantle of Mary."
Though it was snowing heavily, the mother
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