Saint
Saint Dominic Savio
- Country / origin
- Italy
- Life
- 1842–1857
- Feast
- 6 May
Awaiting theological review
Who was this?
A pupil of Saint John Bosco who died at 14, showing that young people too can be saints.
Patron of
- children
- teenagers
- altar servers
- youth
When to ask for intercession
- hard choices as a teenager
- growing in faith
- wanting holiness while young
A short prayer
Saint Dominic Savio, help me to choose the good with joy and to understand that young people too can be saints.
Written for Lumen as a simple personal prayer of intercession — not a liturgical text.
What we know — and how
Tradition holds
6 May is his date in the Salesian calendar; he is not in the General Roman Calendar.
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