Carlo Braga

Carlo Braga (23 May 1889 – 3 January 1971) was a Salesian religious priest. He is also sometimes known as "the little Don Bosco of China" for his missionary works towards the children in China. He died in the Philippines in 1971.

Biography Don Braga was born in Tirano, Sondrio, on May 23, 1889. He grew up motherless since childhood and because of this his education was entrusted to the Salesians of Don Bosco in Sondrio. When he was seventeen, he entered the Salesians and took religious vows in Turin, Italy and he completed his studies in philosophy in Valsalice High School, where his instructors were Don Cimatti, the future apostle of Japan, and Don Cojazzi, a well known apostle of young people.

He was ordained on 11 April 1914.

With the outbreak of the First World War, he was recruited in the army; he then contracted Spanish flu. He received a missionary cross in April 1919.

Beatification The cause for his beatification is already in the preliminary stages of the diocesan investigation but has not yet received the decree nihil obstat from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. As of January 2019, he has been declared a Servant of God.