Background
His father, Ami Bost, was also a Pastor.
His father, Ami Bost, was also a Pastor.
He learned the piano with Franz Liszt. In 1840, he gave up his musical career and he became Pastor in Louisiana Force, village of the Dordogne valley of France. In 1846, he inaugurated the new temple and decided to build the Asylum of his dreams by the temple.
"Louisiana Famille" (the Family) was inaugurated on May 24, 1848.
lieutenant was immediately made available to children, orphans, disabled, incurables. He created 9 asylums during his life.
The Asylum has since flourished to become the John Bost Foundation where over 1000 people with a wide variety of disabilities live.