The church dedicated to San Giovanni Bosco embellishes the small park built near the railway station in Stimigliano Scalo.
It was built at the behest and at the expense of the Cavaliere del Lavoro Alessandro Sbordoni at the request of Bishop Mon. Federico Emanueli as a gift to the ceramic workers and their families.
It was in fact the desire of the population to remember with a sacred building the stop that the Saint seems to have been forced to make in this place, waiting for the repair of the train that would take him to the Magliano Sabino seminary.
The church was consecrated in 1936 with a solemn religious ceremony in the presence of Cardinal Donato Sbarretti and the major political, civil and military authorities of the place.
On 22 December 1963 the new bell was inaugurated, replacing the previous one, which was removed because it was out of tune.
In 2011, on the proposal of the “San Giovanni Bosco” Committee, the church was equipped with an electric bell; the modernization work was financed entirely by dr. Rodolfo Nobili.
The statue of the saint was purchased in Rome during the war and transported by freight wagon to the station at night. Secured in the house of Donato Racanicchi, secretary of the San Giovanni Bosco committee, it was then taken to church the morning after arrival and entrusted to the pastor of the time, Don Mario Petrignani.
Bibliography: Grizi Mario, Palladio: the history of the glorious Sbordoni ceramics, Magliano Sabina, 2014