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, ...

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

Pope Leo XIV proclaimed the Italians Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis as saints of the Church on Sunday, Sept. 7.

VATICAN CITY It was only at Pier Giorgio's funeral in July 1925 that his father, Commendator Alfredo Frassati, fully ...

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

The new saints "are an invitation to all of us, especially young people, not to squander our lives, but to direct them ...

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

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

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

Pope Leo XIV canonized Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis on September 7, marking the first saints of his papacy.

The Catholic Church celebrates the proclamation of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati as new saints.