13. Sad end of some young people who abandon religion, 1846
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I had a dream that caused me great sorrow. I saw two young men leaving our Oratory and leaving Turin. But no sooner had they left the city than a huge beast of frightful shapes threw itself against them. This beast filled them with its disgusting slime and rolled them on the ground, leaving them so full of mud and filth that they were disgusting....
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Note: Don Bosco narrated this dream to several of his collaborators, among whom was his architect and great friend Joseph Buzzetti. And he told them the names of the two young men. History later proved that the dream did indeed correspond to reality, for those two boys abandoned religion and devoted themselves to all kinds of vices. Buzzetti and his companions were able to prove it.
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14. Money for a chalice and new interview with Louis Comollo, 1846.
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I needed a chalice to celebrate Holy Mass and I had no money to buy it. And one night I dreamed that in a trunk in my room there was enough money to buy the chalice. In the morning I went to the city on several errands and walking down the street I remembered the dream I had had and I was filled with joy thinking that it could be true. And such was the emotion I felt that I immediately went back to the house to search the trunk. I did so and found at the bottom of the trunk the full amount of money they were charging for the chalice. There was no explanation for that, because the trunk was always closed and no one had ever come to put anything in it. And Mama Margarita had no money to be able to afford such surprises. She herself was amazed to learn what had happened.
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Note: Mother Margarita told young Santiago Belia that one night, at dawn, she heard Don Bosco talking in his room and asking questions and answering them and that in the morning she asked him with whom he had been talking that night, and Don Bosco answered her: "I was talking with Luis Comollo". She said, "But Luis Comollo has been dead for years". And yet it is so - said the Saint