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Saint Dominic Savio is the patron saint of young boys. If you are having problems with peer preasure or with schoolwork Saint Dominic is a good choice for guidance.

Saint Dominic Savio was born in Italy, on April 2, 1842. He was one of the ten children to a blacksmith. In 1854 he was intoduced to Don Bosco. Don Bosco accepted him into a school for boys when he was 12. It was called Oratory of Saint Francis de Sales. He loved to learn and worked very hard in his studies. He prayed really hard and kept his friendships and soon founded a group of youth ministers that he called the Company of Mary Immaculate. At the age of 13 his health started failing because of tuberculosis. When he became sick during his high school years, he returned to his town of of Mondonio, Italy, and there he died a peaceful, and joyful death with his parents on March 9, 1857. He was one month short of his 15th birthday on May 6.