On the 100th anniversary of Pier Giorgio Frassati’s death this week, crowds packed into the Turin Cathedral to pray at the tomb of the charismatic young man who is set to be canonized as a saint in ...

On Sunday, the area around St. Peter’s Square was filled from early in the morning with banners, singing, and prayers in many languages accompanying the first canonizations of Pope Leo XIV’s ...

Pope Francis praised Frassati for sharing the love of Jesus with the poor in a speech on June 24. Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, who died at the age of 24 in 1925, is beloved by many Catholic young ...

On September 7, 2025, Pier Giorgio Frassati, who was born in Turin, Italy, on April 6, 1901, and died at the age of 24 from fulminant poliomyelitis, will be elevated to the honors of the altar. Before ...

Pope Leo XIV speaks during a Holy Mass and canonisation ceremony of Blessed Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati in St Peter's Square at the Vatican. Marco Iacobucci/IPA via ZUMA Press/dpa Pope Leo ...

EWTN News and EWTN Studios will join forces in Rome from Sept. 3–7 to televise the canonizations of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati. In addition to the canonizations, viewers who want an ...

Pope Leo XIV Sunday elevated to sainthood two young Italians who died eight decades apart, Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati, during a mass in St. Peter's Square before a crowd of 80,000. Acutis, ...

The relics of two saints-to-be -- Blesseds Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis -- will be in Rome for veneration during the Jubilee of Youth July 28-Aug. 3, according to worldyouthday.com. The ...

This weekend, the Catholic Church will get two new Italian saints, including the church’s first millennial saint. “Blesseds” Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati — who are both beatified, the first ...