Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, born on April 6, 1901 to a prominent and wealthy Italian family, became a popular role model ...

Nearly a century after the death of Pier Giorgio Frassati, I set out with friends to hike in his footsteps in northern Italy, ...

Going forward, the Catholic Church will commemorate the liturgical memorial of St. Carlo Acutis on Oct. 12 and of St. Pier ...

He said of Frassati, “Pier Giorgio’s life is a beacon for lay spirituality. For him, faith was not a private devotion, but it ...

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati died almost 100 years ago, but he would have fit in perfectly with many Catholics' groups of friends.

We look to Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati and Saint Carlo Acutis: a young man from the early 20th century and a teenager from ...

Frassati's spiritual biographer, Fr. Paolo Asolan, addressed devotees of the new saint hours before his canonization in Rome.

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If Carlo Acutis is the Church’s new digital saint, Pier Giorgio Frassati is its original youth icon. Born in Turin in 1901, ...

Pier Giorgio Frassati was canonised alongside teen saint Carlo Acutis during a ceremony at the Vatican on 7 September 2025.

It was only their first day on the job as canonized saints, but Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati were already ...

Pope Leo XIV has declared a 15-year-old computer whiz the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint. Carlo Acutis, who died in ...