Excerpt from A Sketch of the Life and Works: Of the Venerable Don Bosco, Apostle of Youth, the Founder of the Society of St. Francis of Sales This brief sketch of the holy life and marvellous achievements of a great inheritor of the spirit of Saint Francis of Sales, the Venerable Don Bosco, is intended only to stimulate souls to a wider study of this loving Apostle of Youth, and so to a knowledge and reverence and appreciation, we dare to how, which will urge them onward in the ways of holiness, and make them ardent and practical co-operators in the divine work of saving the young the most pressing need of our times initiated by the Founder of the Salesian So ciety, and brought to wonderful issues through the miraculous power of God and the loving inter vention of Mary, Help of Christians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.