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A touch of magic for the Feast of St John
Bosco!
January 31 2005 -- (Taken from Catholic Magicians' Guild -
http://www.kismetmagic.com and featured
in Australia's Catholic News) - Today is the feast of Salesian founder St John
Bosco, who is also patron saint of magicians.
Working
with poor children of Turin, he remembered the magic he would perform for his
little friends when he was a child and decided that that was the best way to
bring children back to the Church. This is the site of US-based Catholic
Magicians Guild chair Angelo Stagnaro, who describes the Guild's role in helping
parishes by 'augmenting cathetical instructions of children and adults with
stage and close-up magic'. The site is still under development, but the Guild
also has a brochure, and a feature in the most
recent Online
Catholics. For website reviews archive, see
http://www.cathnews.com/sites
There are any number of
Salesian magicians around. In the EAO region there is the well-known
professional magician Fr Michael Court, who directs the Salesian spirituality
centre at Lysterfield (Melbourne) and uses his magic in precisely the way
St John Bosco did, combined with equal amounts of prayer! Then there is
Mago Sales, a Salesian from the Turin area who uses his magic to move people to
support third world areas involved in conflict. Mago Sales often tours
these areas with high profile entertainment people, bringing joy to children who
know little of it but who, like all children anywhere, can forget their troubles
with a little magic. Yesterday he was in St Peter's Square
performing in front of the Pope.
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