Giovanni Cagliero

Giovanni Cagliero

Giovanni Cagliero (11 January 1838 – 28 February 1926) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church.

Quotes

• I began at once to visit the places where the new establishments were to rise, and I saw what an abundant harvest the Lord prepared for us.
  • The Venerable Don Bosco, the Apostle of Youth (1916)

Quotes about Giovanni Cagliero

• Don Bosco organized his first missionary enterprise. The heroic band was composed of ten priests and coadjutor Salesian Brothers and fifteen Sisters of Mary, Help of Christians. Don Cagliero (now a prince of the Church), a favorite disciple of Don Bosco, whom he had never left from the age of thirteen, and who had become one of the most learned and saintly sons of the Society, was appointed the director of the mission.
  • Mary Paulina Finn, The Venerable Don Bosco, the Apostle of Youth (1916)