THE APOSTLE OF YOUTH
Virgin will accompany you before the Sovereign Judge; leave all to her. But before you go I will give you a message.' "'Yes, Father.'
"'When you see the Blessed Mother of our Saviour in paradise, present humble, respectful greetings from all here. Ask her to bless us and take us under her powerful protection, that not one of us, nor those whom Providence will send to our Oratories, may be lost.'
"'I will, Father.'"
How simple and beautiful the faith of both!
Little Camillus Gavio was with them only a few months when he was called to be a companion of the angels; yet in that brief period he left an ineffaceable memory of his holiness. So remarkable was his talent for painting and sculpture, that the Turin government had decided that he should continue his artistic studies at the expense of the State.
Don Bosco gave exquisite sketches of several other young lives, which I hope will some day be done into choice English by one of their Salesian descendants as the Life of Dominic Savio has already been rendered, the little fifteen year boy who was another St. Aloysius. Among these are "Young Louis Comollo," "Some Salesian Contemporaries," "Young Francis Besucco, or the Little Shepherd of the Alps," and "Mary of the Angels, a Carmelite Nun." Above them all, however the holiness of young Dominic Savio shines like a star.
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