![[Saint Leonard Murialdo]](saintl32.jpg "25kb jpg photograph of Saint Leonard Murialdo, date unknown, photographer unknown; if you have information on this image, please email me; please do not write to ask about the image")
30 March (general) 18 May (Salesians)
Founded the Society of Saint Joseph of Turin modelled after and under the patronage of Saint Joseph, the model for working people; it still exists, and still supports young apprentices. Founded a center for delinquent boys, the forerunner of Boy's Town and similar institutions. Supported the Catholic Workers Union. Established a national federation to improve the level of Italian journalism. A model for Christian social workers, he was dubbed a Socialist for advocating an 8-hour work day in 1885.
30 March 1900 of natural causes in Turin, Italy buried at Church of Saint Barbara, Turin, Italy
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein Kirken i Norge - norwegian Letter to Father Luigi Pierini, Superior General of the Congregation of Saint Joseph on the Centernary of the Death of Saint Leonard Murialdo, by Pope John Paul II Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson Spiritual Testament, by Saint Leonard