In 1853 to train boys in some useful trades, Don Bosco turned his backyard into a makeshift workshop for shoemaking, carpentry, tailoring, smithy, book binding and printing. This was the first Catholic trade school in Italy. To give permanence to his work. In 1859, he founded a religious Society of Priests and Brothers which was named Salesians, after his favourite saint, Francis de Sales. Today they are known as the Salesians of Don Bosco (SDB).