There’s been no official announcement or confirmation yet from Rome. But a report popped up this morning, quoting remarks by the prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro. Saturday morning, citing this story, the Frassati USA organization posted the news on social media.
Details (in some awkwardly-translated Italian):
Pier Giorgio Frassati, the boy who loved taking his friends to the mountains to push their gaze “upwards,” will be declared a saint next year. The young blessed from Turin, lover of God and men, will be canonized during the Jubilee of 2025.
The prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, made the big announcement this afternoon, speaking during the XVIII National Assembly of the Italian Catholic Action, in Sacrofano.
“I would like to tell you that the canonization of Blessed Piergiorgio Frassati is now clear on the horizon and is looming for the next Jubilee year,” said the cardinal, whose speech was interrupted by long applause from the thousand Catholic Action members present.
In the homily for the rite of his beatification – added the prefect, citing Frassati among the most luminous figures of saints who grew up in the AC – which took place on 20 May 1990, Saint John Paul II called him the man of the Beatitudes; he also said that “in Catholic Action he lived his Christian vocation with joy and pride and committed himself to loving Jesus and seeing in him the brothers he met on his path.”
Frassati, born in Turin in 1901 and died at just 24 years old, was a “wonderful model of Christian life,” underlined Semeraro, who lived his youth, quoting John Paul II, “entirely immersed in the mystery of God and dedicated to constant service of others.”
Learn more about Blessed Pier here.
A young American man named Kevin Becker has long credited Blessed Pier with his miraculous healing after a fall from a roof that left Becker in a coma and on the brink of death. His story is astonishing.
Finally, check out this brief video about Pier Giorgio Frassati below:
