Today, a hundred and twenty years after Don Bosco’s death, 36,000 Priests, Brothers and Sisters carry out his work in 131 countries around the world. They are engaged in a wide variety of development works directed to the welfare of the young: academic, agricultural and technical schools, youth centres, hostels and parishes, catholics, mass media and social communications, youth counselling and rehabilitation centres and a host of special services for delinquents and marginalized youth.

Don Bosco died on 31st January 1888 at the age of seventy three. He was declared a saint on 1st April 1934. His feast day is celebrated on 31st January every year.