Preghiera beato pier giorgio frassati biography

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati is a saint for the modern world, and especially for young people. Born in 1901 in Turin, Italy, his time on earth was short—only 24 years—but he filled it passionately with holy living.

Pier Giorgio was a model of virtue, a “man of the beatitudes,” as Pope John Paul II called him at his beatification ceremony in 1990. He was described by friends as “an explosion of joy.” As Pier Giorgio’s sister, Luciana, says in her biography of her brother, “He represented the finest in Christian youth: pure, happy, enthusiastic about everything that is good and beautiful.”

To our modern world which is often burdened by cynicism and angst, Pier Giorgio’s life offers a brilliant contrast, a life rich in meaning, purpose, and peace derived from faith in God.

From the earliest age, and despite two unreligious parents who misunderstood and disapproved of his piety and intense interest in Catholicism, Pier Giorgio placed Christ first in all that he