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 ...

July 4 is Independence Day. It is also the feast day of one of the most popular Catholic saints, Pier Giorgio Frassati. The United States declared its liberty from Britain on this day in 1776. Pier ...

Mario Enzler is a senior adviser to the president of The Heritage Foundation and the author of “I Served a Saint.” On Sept. 7, 80,000 worshippers gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for Pope Leo XIV’s ...

Images of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati appear beside and on his tomb at St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Turin, Italy, in this file photo from February 2006. (CNS file photo/Carol Glatz) VATICAN ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Leo XIV speaks during a Holy Mass and canonisation ceremony of Blessed Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati in St Peter's ...

A nun holds a picture of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati on the day Pope Leo XIV leads the canonization Mass of Blessed Carlo Acutis, a British-born Italian boy who will become the first ...

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 ...

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 ...