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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Dominic Savio, Tarcisio Bertone, Henry of Segusio, Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi, Roberto Rosetti, Mauro Picotto, Princess Bona Margherita of Savoy-Genoa, Gian Piero Gasperini, Piero Gros, Francesco Scardina, Giacomo and Giovanni Battista Tocci, Carlos Luigi Spegazzini, Giovanni Agnelli, Luigi, Count Cibrario, Pierre-Joseph Bourcet, Gianluca Nicco, Jonas of Bobbio, Eugenia Burzio, Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta, Vittorio Jano, Carlo Furno, Francisco Gianotti, Paolo Ferrero, Alessandro Martini, Giovanni Brunero, Amedeo di Castellamonte, Costantino Nigra, Marina Scalafiotti, Bartolomeo Aimo, Francesco Camusso, Pietro Yon, Luigi Des Ambrois, Lucio Malan, Franco Balmamion, Emanuele Beraudo di Pralormo, Giancarlo Judica Cordiglia, Mario Ghella, Vincenzo Borgarello, Scipione Riva-Rocci, Giovanni Valetti, Bernardino Drovetti, Laura Gore, Fernando Cerchio, Gustavo Zagrebelsky, Carlo Vidano, Enrico Saroldi, Felice Carena, Giorgio di Biandrate, Paolo Gaidano. Excerpt: Dominic Savio (Italian: April 2, 1842 - March 9, 1857) was an Italian adolescent student of Saint John Bosco. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died at the age of 14, possibly from pleurisy. His teacher, John Bosco had very high regard for his student, and wrote a biography of his young student, The Life of Dominic Savio. This volume, along with other accounts of him, were critical factors in his cause for sainthood. Despite the fact that many people considered him to have died at too young an age - fourteen - to be considered for sainthood, he was considered eligible for such singular honour on the basis of his having displayed "heroic virtue" in his everyday life. He is the only saint of his age group, which includes Maria Goretti and Ponticus of Lyons, who was declared to be a saint not on the basis of his having been a martyr, but on the...
