12 amazing facts about the life of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
CNA Staff, Jul 4, / am
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, born on April 6, , to a prominent and wealthy Italian family, became a popular role model soon after he died on July 4, , at the age of He could be declared a saint during the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year, according to the head of the Vatican’s office for saints’ causes.
According to the website dedicated to him by the U.S. Catholic bishops, for years Frassati has been “a significant global patron for youth and young adults — and has a special place in the hearts of young people across the United States as well. St. John Paul II declared him a patron for World Youth Days and deemed him ‘the man of the beatitudes’ as he exemplified those blessings in his everyday life.”
Here are 12 amazing facts about his short but very intense life:
1. Despite being raised by agnostic parents, Frassati’s inclinations to help others manifested in his childhood. Once, as a child, he answered the door to find a mother begging with her son who was shoeless. He took off his own shoes and gave them to the child.
2. At an early age, he joined the Marian Sodality and the Apostle
Biografía del Beato Pier Giorgio Frassati
En su adolescencia cultivó una profunda vida espiritual, se hizo activo miembro de la Acción Católica, el Apostolado de la oración, la Liga Eucarística y la Asociación de jóvenes adoradores universitarios.
Decidió estudiar Ingeniería Industrial Mecánica para trabajar cerca de los operarios pobres e ingresó al Politécnico de Turín donde fundó un círculo de jóvenes que buscaban hacer de Cristo el centro de su amistad.
Llevó una vida austera y destinaba a obras de caridad buena parte del dinero que sus padres le daban para sus gastos personales. Su fuerza estaba en la comunión diaria y la frecuente adoración al Santísimo.
Fue deportista, esquiador y montañista. Escaló los Alpes y el Valle de Aosta. Asimismo, nunca perdió la oportunidad de llevar a sus amigos a la Santa Misa, la lectura de las Sagradas Escrituras y el rezo del Santo Rosario.
Cuando cumplió 24 años de edad le diagnosticaron poliomielitis fulminante, una enfermedad que lo llevó a
Nasce il 6 Aprile a Torino da una famiglia ricca borghese. Quando, fanciullo, apprese i primi racconti del Vangelo, Pier Giorgio ne restò colpito, a volte in modo così profondo da diventare protagonista di gesti inattesi in un bimbo tanto piccolo..
I Frassati erano una delle famiglie più in vista della città, di estrazione alto-borghese, ma Pier Giorgio Frassati preferì essere il &#;facchino&#; dei poveri, trascinando per le vie di Torino i carretti carichi di masserizie degli sfrattati&#; e come membro della Conferenza di S. Vincenzo visitare le famiglie più bisognose per portarvi conforto e aiuto materiale. Vi si recava generalmente al mattino, prima delle lezioni all&#;Università, oppure nelle uscite serali, carico di pacchi.
Dinamico, volitivo, pieno di vita, Pier Giorgio amava i fiori e la poesia, le scalate in montagna. Spesso raggiungeva a piedi il Santuario della Madonna di Oropa. Arrivato al Santuario, dopo un&#;ora di marcia e completamente digiuno, era solito assistere alla Santa Messa, poi faceva la Comunione e nel ritorno verso casa recitava il Rosario lungo la via, ad alta voce, cantando le Litanie.
Il 28 maggio , nella chiesa torinese di San Domenico, ricev
Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati is a saint for the modern world, and especially for the young people of our time. Born in 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 the saint's beatification ceremony in Rome on May 20, He was described by friends as "an explosion of joy." As Pier Giorgio's sister, Luciana, says of her brother in her biography of him, "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 did. These parental misunderstandings, which were very painful to him, persisted until the day of his sudden death of polio. However, he bore this treatment pat
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