Few perhaps know "Casa Moretta", the penultimate stage of the Wandering Oratory. It is located on the right side of Piazza Maria Ausiliatrice (Turin) in front of the Basilica of Maria Ausiliatrice, and is today known as the "Parish Church of Valdocco".
Brief history of Casa Moretta
1845: Fr Moretta rents three rooms of his home to Don Bosco
1848: Fr Bosco buys the entire house (18 rooms) with the surrounding land, to transform it into a boarding house, but soon renounces because of the bad condition of the building and sells the house in the spring of 1849.
1875: Don Bosco buys back "Casa Moretta" and the land and sets up the first female oratory.
Source: AustraLasia
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