{"id":20750,"date":"2025-05-02T15:22:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T22:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/?p=20750"},"modified":"2025-05-09T16:01:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T23:01:28","slug":"the-life-of-saint-dominic-savio-vida-de-santo-domingo-savio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesianbulletin.org\/es\/2025\/05\/02\/the-life-of-saint-dominic-savio-vida-de-santo-domingo-savio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life of Saint Dominic Savio \/ Vida de Santo Domingo Savio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feast Day, May 6<\/em> \/ D\u00eda festivo, 6 de mayo<\/em> –<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Born on April 2, 1842, to Carlo and Birgitta Savio in a small city in   Italy, Dominic was one of 10 children of a peasant family. Despite the fact that his illiterate parents could not teach Dominic and his brothers and sisters intellectually and academically, Mrs. Savio had taken special effort to raise and nurture her children in the Roman Catholic faith and tradition, teaching the principles of religion instead. Eventually, Dominic was able to read and write at age 6, and he also made his first holy communion at an unusually early age,   his resolutions being, \u201cI will go often to Confession and Holy Communion\u201d, \u201cJesus and Mary will be my Special Friends\u201d, and \u201cI wish to die rather than commit a sin\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By 1854 Dominic started to find a special attraction to the priesthood and to feel a special vocation, drawing him very close to God. At the age of 12, he initially became acquainted with St. John Bosco \u2013 Don Bosco \u2013, the founder of the Salesian order and the Oratory of St. Francis de Sales in Turin. Encouraged by Don Bosco\u2019s message that it was necessary for everyone to become a saint,   making it God\u2019s will for everyone and that becoming a saint was actually easy for everyone to achieve, Dominic started taking this \u201cmatter\u201d very seriously soon. However, seeing such a young boy isolating himself from his peers and extending the times he spent in prayer to the point that he even \u201coffered up\u201d his lunch breaks in order to pray, Don Bosco put him back on a more realistic way of achieving saintliness. He pointed out that one becomes a saint by fulfilling one\u2019s daily duties and not by neglecting any of them in any way, holiness consisting of being happy and helping others be happy. Dominic quickly put this advice into practice. He was a diligent and cheerful student. With a real concern for the spiritual welfare of his friends, he would encourage boys to go to confession when he saw them sinning, and would not allow them to swear or curse while they were playing with him. Sometimes he would invite them to make visits to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament or say the rosary with him. Dominic also had a great love for purity. Once he came across a group of boys laughing over an impure magazine one of them had brought into the Oratory. When   Dominic saw the pictures, he tore the magazine into pieces and scolded his friends for putting their souls in such danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The graces Dominic Savio had begun to receive were great and plentiful.   Even though Dominic felt a great desire to do penance, Don Bosco put him back on a more \u201crealistic\u201d level since he saw that the boy\u2019s health was slowly deteriorating. Don Bosco encouraged Dominic to make obedience his sacrifice and   penance and to seek sanctification by the martyrdom of daily duty, having   Dominic arrive at the conclusion, \u201cI can\u2019t do big things but I want everything   to be for the glory of God.\u201d So Dominic made small, everyday things into sacrifices for God; never complaining about the weather or food, doing little odd jobs for the other students, and faithfully controlling his eyes to guard his purity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1857, Dominic contracted tuberculosis at the age of 15; he was not able to recover, and after but a few weeks of illness, he received the Last   Rites from a priest on March 9, 1857. Dominic died with a radiant smile on his   face, exclaiming in the very moment before his death, \u201cOh, what lovely things I see!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vida de Santo Domingo Savio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

La parroquia St. Dominic Savio fue fundada en 1952. Junto con los salesianos de la escuela secundaria St. John Bosco, que est\u00e1 al lado, esta comunidad atiende las necesidades espirituales y educativas en Bellflower y las ciudades cercanas.

Nuestro patr\u00f3n es Santo Domingo Savio. Santo a los 15 a\u00f1os, fue educado por San Juan Bosco y los Salesianos. Aqu\u00ed te contaremos quien fue Domingo Savio

Domingo naci\u00f3 el 2 de abril de 1842, en una peque\u00f1a ciudad de Italia llamada Chieri, sus padre fueron Carlo y Birgitta Savio;  Domingo era uno de los 10 hijos de una familia campesina. A pesar de que sus padres analfabetos no pod\u00edan ense\u00f1ar intelectual y acad\u00e9micamente a Domingo y sus hermanos y hermanas, la Sra. Savio hab\u00eda hecho un esfuerzo especial para criar y educar a sus hijos en la fe y la tradici\u00f3n cat\u00f3lica romana, ense\u00f1\u00e1ndoles los principios de la religi\u00f3n. Eventualmente, Domingo pudo leer y escribir a los 6 a\u00f1os, y tambi\u00e9n hizo su primera comuni\u00f3n a una edad inusualmente temprana, siendo sus promesas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ir\u00e9 a menudo a la Confesi\u00f3n y la Sagrada Comuni\u00f3n”
“Jes\u00fas y Mar\u00eda ser\u00e1n mis mejores amigos\u201d
\u201cPrefiero morir antes que pecar\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Hacia el a\u00f1o 1854 Domingo comenz\u00f3 a encontrar una atracci\u00f3n especial por el sacerdocio y a sentir una vocaci\u00f3n especial, por Dios. A la edad de 12 a\u00f1os, conoci\u00f3 inicialmente a San Juan Bosco \u2013 Don Bosco \u2013, el fundador de la orden salesiana y del Oratorio de San Francisco de Sales en Tur\u00edn. Animado por el mensaje de Don Bosco de que era necesario que todos se hicieran santos, por lo que era la voluntad de Dios para todos y que convertirse en santo era realmente f\u00e1cil de lograr para todos, Domingo pronto comenz\u00f3 a tomar este “asunto” muy en serio. Sin embargo, al ver a un ni\u00f1o tan joven aisl\u00e1ndose de sus compa\u00f1eros y extendiendo los tiempos que dedicaba a la oraci\u00f3n hasta el punto de que incluso “ofrec\u00eda” sus pausas para el almuerzo para orar, Don Bosco lo puso de nuevo en una forma m\u00e1s realista de lograr su santidad.

Le manifest\u00f3 al peque\u00f1o Domingo que para hacerse santo, solo bastaba con hacer alegremente los deberes diarios, sin descuidar  ninguno de ellos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“la santidad consiste en ser feliz
y ayudar a los dem\u00e1s a ser felices”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Domingo r\u00e1pidamente puso en pr\u00e1ctica este consejo. Era un estudiante diligente y alegre. Con una verdadera preocupaci\u00f3n por el bienestar espiritual de sus amigos, animaba a los ni\u00f1os a confesarse cuando los ve\u00eda pecar, y no les permit\u00eda jurar o maldecir mientras jugaban con \u00e9l. A veces los invitaba a hacer visitas a Jes\u00fas Sacramentado oa rezar el rosario con \u00e9l. Domingo tambi\u00e9n ten\u00eda un gran amor por la pureza. Una vez se encontr\u00f3 con un grupo de muchachos que se re\u00edan de una revista impura que uno de ellos hab\u00eda tra\u00eddo al Oratorio. Cuando Domingo vio las fotos, rompi\u00f3 la revista en pedazos y rega\u00f1\u00f3 a sus amigos por poner sus almas en peligro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Las gracias que Domingo Savio hab\u00eda comenzado a recibir eran grandes y abundantes. Aunque Domingo sinti\u00f3 un gran deseo de hacer penitencia, Don Bosco lo volvi\u00f3 a colocar en un nivel m\u00e1s \u201crealista\u201d, ya que vio que la salud del ni\u00f1o se deterioraba lentamente. Don Bosco anim\u00f3 a Domingo a hacer de la obediencia su sacrificio y penitencia y a buscar la santificaci\u00f3n por el martirio del deber diario, haciendo que Domingo llegara a la conclusi\u00f3n: “No puedo hacer grandes cosas, pero quiero que todo sea para la gloria de Dios”. As\u00ed, Domingo convirti\u00f3 las cosas peque\u00f1as y cotidianas en sacrificios para Dios; nunca se queja del clima o la comida, hace peque\u00f1os trabajos extra\u00f1os para los otros estudiantes y controla fielmente sus ojos para proteger su pureza.

En 1857, Domingo contrajo tuberculosis a la edad de 15 a\u00f1os; no pudo recuperarse, y despu\u00e9s de unas pocas semanas de enfermedad, recibi\u00f3 los \u00faltimos ritos de un sacerdote el 9 de marzo de 1857. Domingo muri\u00f3 con una sonrisa radiante en su rostro, exclamando en el mismo momento antes de su muerte,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c \u00a1Oh, qu\u00e9 cosas tan hermosas veo!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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