 From 20 October 1863 he began to serve as the rector at Mirabello where the congregation's first house outside Turin was located.He returned to Turin in 1865 to serve as the Valdocco vice-rector and later as the manager for the ""Letture Cattoliche"" (Catholic Readings).But he also returned to Turin to aid an ill Bosco but fell ill himself with peritonitis in 1868 deemed incurable.