Among Catholics, John “Don” Bosco is revered as the patron saint of editors and publishers, schoolchildren, magicians and troubled youth. On a regular basis, pilgrims flock to the massive Don Bosco Basilica, which overlooks the municipality renamed for the saint. Over the weekend, after a group of pilgrims had left the area, a thief stole the reliquary, church officials said. “Shock and outrage surround theft of St. John’s Bosco’s brain,” blared a headline on Crux, a popular Catholic online publication in the United States. “Don Bosco fulfilled his priestly mission until his last breath, sustained by an unshakable trust in God,” the pope said.

Source: National Post June 06, 2017 17:26 UTC