Don Bosco or St. John Bosco was born in the year 1815, in a poor farmer’s family in Becchi, a village in Italy. He lost his father at the age of 2 and was raised with much hardship by his mother. Though he was a bright child, education was expensive and he was unable to attend school. Yet his zeal for acquiring knowledge and learning urged him to study while he tended the cattle in the fields. He worked at many jobs with the aim of learning and paying his way through to obtain an education.
Pursuing his education and vocation, John Bosco became a Catholic priest, hence he was now known as Don John Bosco, or better still Don Bosco. As a priest he started his career by teaching young girls for the Marchioness Barollo, a rich society lady of the city. Turin, the city where he lived at the time was gradually getting industrialized. The opportunities for employment had increased tremendously and there was a constant influx of rural people into the city.