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The Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB; also officially named the Society of St. Francis de Sales, also known as the Salesian Society) is a religious congregation of brothers and priests in the Roman Catholic Church. It was founded in the late nineteenth century by an Italian priest Saint John Bosco to help poor and abandoned youth. He named his congregation after St. Francis de Sales, the saintly bishop of Geneva from 1602-1622, because he wanted the members to imitate his gentleness and kindness in