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Pope Leo's First Saints: Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati | EWTN News In Depth

The highly-anticipated canonizations of Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati are set to take place at the Vatican next month... Watch

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Brothers in Christ: Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati

The two young men from northern Italy will be canonized together this fall by Pope Leo XIV as the first saints of the new pontificate... Read more

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They Chose Christ: Carlo Acutis’ Mother on Son’s Kinship with Fellow Soon-to-be Saint Frassati

Blessed Carlo Acutis’ mother, Antonia Acutis, reacted joyfully to the news that her son and fellow Italian Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati... Read more

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10 things you should know about Blessed Carlo Acutis

It’s official! Pope Leo XIV will canonize Blessed Carlo Acutis on Sept. 7 together with Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati as the first new saints of his pontificate... Read more

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Honoring Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati at the Jubilee of Youth | EWTN News Nightly

At the Jubilee of Youth in Rome, one beloved figure capturing the hearts of many is Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati—a 20th-century man... Watch

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Thousands of young people visited the incorrupt body of soon-to-be Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati

His body is now traveling back to the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin. Frassati died on July 4, 1925 yet, 100 years later, his story... Watch

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Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati & St. Catherine of Siena: A Chain of Holiness | EWTN News Nightly

In anticipation of his upcoming canonization in Rome, and for the first time, Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati’s relics were brought from Turin... Watch

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Hiking In Search of Pier Giorgio Frassati

Join EWTN’s Colm Flynn as he travels across Italy with a group of young men from the United States on a life-changing pilgrimage in honor of soon-to-be saint, Pier Giorgio Frassati... Watch

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Catholic cliffhanger: Future saint was an avid mountain climber

When alpine climber Edoardo Ricci clips into a harness or prepares for a steep ascent in the Alps, he says a silent prayer to Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati... Read more

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Read the Letters That Inspired Pier Giorgio Frassati’s Path to Holiness

Frassati carried the Epistles of St. Paul with him on the streetcar and called them “words of eternal life...”Read more

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