January 31: saint of the day, name day


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The saint of the day January 31 is San Giovanni Bosco, which name day is celebrated and other saints who are celebrated on this date.


San Giovanni Bosco

Born in 1875 in the rural hamlet of Castelnuovo d’Asti, Giovanni came from a peasant family.

The mother Margherita, against the opinion of relatives, had desired that the son become a priest and was always at his side, together with those boys collected by him under the famous Pinardi canopy, who became the first nucleus of Don Bosco's works.


Don Bosco never tired of asking everyone for money and work for those kids found on the street, who needed to be fed, educated and started to carry out a job.

He created the first professional schools, from which not so much educated men had to emerge as honest and capable workers.

He was also an acute pedagogist and wanted the "preventive" system to be applied in his schools, which consisted of preventing errors, in times when the educational system was still "repressive".


He therefore, more than a teacher, considered himself a friend of the boys, for whom he endured very serious labors and suffered persecution because he was taken as a priest who wanted to deal with matters that should have concerned only politics.

He put his work as a Christian educator under the protection of Saint Francis de Sales and died in Turin in 1888.

Other saints and celebrations on January 31st

  • Sant'Abramo
  • Bishop of Arbela


  • Saints Augustine Pak Chong-Won and five companions
  • Martyrs

  • Sant ’Aidano (Medhoc) by Ferns
  • Bishop

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  • Blessed Candelaria of San Giuseppe (Susanna Paz-Castillo Ramirez)
  • Founder

  • San Ciro
  • Martyr

  • Sant'Eusebio
  • Monaco of St. Gallen

  • Saint Francis Xavier Maria Bianchi
  • barnabita

  • San Geminiano di Modena
  • Bishop

  • Saint John
  • Martyr

  • San Giulio d’Orta
  • Priest


  • Blessed Ludovica Albertoni
  • Franciscan tertiary

  • Santa Marcella of Rome
  • Widow

  • San Metras (Metrano) of Alessandria
  • Martyr

  • San Valdo
  • Bishop

    St John Bosco (Feast Day 31-Jan) (March 2024)


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