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The first to call the Virgin Mary with the title "Help" was St. John Chrysostom in Constantinople in the year 345, he says: "You, Mary, are very powerful aid of God."
San Sabas in the year 532 tells us that in the East was an image of the Virgin that was called "Help for the sick" because she acted with many cures.
St. John of Damascus in 749 was the first to spread the prayer: "Mary Help, pray for us. "And again: the virgin is" helper to avoid harm and danger and helper for salvation. "
In Ukraine, Russia, celebrates the feast of Mary Help of October 1 since 1030, that year the city fought the invasion of a terrible tribe of pagan barbarians.
In 1572, Pope St. Pius ordered fifth worldwide Catholic prayer in the litanies the invocation "Mary Help of Christians, pray for us" because in this year Our Lady miraculously fought at the Battle of Lepanto to all Christianity that came to be destroyed by a Moslem army of 282 ships and 88,000 soldiers.
In 1600 Catholics in southern Germany made a promise to Virgin honor with the title of helper if the books of the Protestant invasion was to end the terrible War 30. The Mother of God gave them both favors and soon there were more than 70 chapels with the title of Mary Help of Christians.
In 1683 the Catholics to get huge win in Vienna against the enemies of religion, founded the Association of Mary Help of Christians, which exists today in over 60 countries.
In 1814, Pope Pius VII, general prisoner of Napoleon, the Virgin promised that the day he came to Rome, in freedom, I will declare the feast of Mary Help of Christians. Unexpectedly, the pope was free, and came to Rome on 24 May. Since then it was declared on May 24 as a day of Mary Help of Christians.
In 1860 the Blessed Virgin appeared to St. John Bosco and says he wants to be honored with the title "Help", and points to the site so that you build in Turin, Italy, a temple.
temple work began with three pieces of twenty cents each, but so many and so great miracles that Mary Help of Christians began to gain favor of his devotees, In just four years the Great Basilica was finished. The Saint used to say: "Every brick of the temple corresponds to a miracle of the Blessed Virgin," from that sanctuary begins to spread across the world devotion to Mary under the title of Help of Christians.
Help 's name was given as early as 1030 to the Virgin Mary, in Ukraine (Russia), have released this region of the invasion of the pagan tribes. Since then in Ukraine is celebrated every year the feast of Mary Help Oct. 1.
There is evidence that by the year 1558 as contained in the litanies that are used to recite in the sanctuary of Loreto, Italy.
This dedication was strong before the Turkish invasion in 1571 that St. Pius V's invoked as Mary Auxiliadota of Christians or the German Catholic princes loyal to Catholicism against the Protestant thesis or against the Turkish invasion of Vienna in the seventeenth century or even as a protective hand against the vagaries of Napoleon Bonaparte that led to Pope Pius VII into exile since his release in 1814 wanted to establish in its May 24 feast.
But surely it was St. John Bosco, Saint Mary Help of Christians, with whom this Marian devotion paladin and found the best springboard for the development and popularity, "not me, has Mary Help of Christians who were saved you "... "Every brick of this church - referred to the great basilica in his gift began the 1863 - is a grace of the Virgin Mary" ...
But it will be exactly in 1862, in full maturity of Don Bosco, when he makes the final Marian option: Help. "Madonna wants the honor with the title of Help: the times are so ominous that we need for the Virgin to help us preserve and defend the Christian faith."
Since then, the title of Help appears in the life of Don Bosco and his work as "central and synthesizer." The Help is the vision itself that Don Bosco is Mary. The Gospel reading that makes Mary, the experience of their lives and their young Salesians, and ecclesial experience do you perceive to Mary as "Help People of God. "
In 1863 Don Bosco began the construction of the church in Turin. All his capital was forty cents, and that was the first payment made by the manufacturer. Five years later, on June 9, 1868, was consecrated the temple. What surprised Don Bosco first and then the world was that Maria Auxiliadora had built his own house, to radiate from there sponsorship. Don Bosco will say: "There is a brick that is not a sign of grace."
Today, Salesians and Salesian, faithful to the spirit of its founders and through the various works that are at hand are proposing as an example, support and encouragement in the evangelization of the people the help that comes from Santa Maria. PRAYERS