12 erstaunliche Fakten über das Leben des Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati

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Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, who died at the age of 24 in 1925, is beloved by many Catholic young people today for his enthusiastic witness to holiness that reaches “to the heights.” / Credit: Public Domain

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, born on April 6, 1901, to a prominent and wealthy Italian family, became a popular role model soon after he died on July 4, 1925, at the age of 24. He could be declared a saint during the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year, according to the head of the Vatican’s office for saints’ causes.

Laut Die Website, die ihm gewidmet ist by the U.S. Catholic bishops, for years Frassati has been “a significant global patron for youth and young adults — and has a special place in the hearts of young people across the United States as well. St. John Paul II declared him a patron for World Youth Days and deemed him ‘the man of the beatitudes’ as he exemplified those blessings in his everyday life.”

Here are 12 amazing facts about his short but very intense life:

1. Despite being raised by agnostic parents, Frassati’s inclinations to help others manifested in his childhood. Once, as a child, he answered the door to find a mother begging with her son who was shoeless. He took off his own shoes and gave them to the child.

2. In jungen Jahren trat er der Marianischen Sodalität und dem Gebetsapostelamt bei und erhielt die Erlaubnis, täglich die Kommunion zu empfangen, was zu dieser Zeit selten war.

3. At the same time, he was known among his friends as “Il Terrore” (“The Terror”) due to his fondness for practical jokes.

4. Mit 17 Jahren trat er der St. Vincent de Paul Society bei und widmete einen Großteil seiner Freizeit der Pflege der Armen, Obdachlosen, Kranken und demobilisierten Soldaten, die aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg zurückkehrten.

5. 1919 trat Frassati der Katholischen Studentenstiftung und der Volkspartei bei, deren Prinzipien in der Soziallehre der Kirche begründet waren. Er lehnte den Aufstieg des faschistischen Führers Benito Mussolini entschieden ab und wurde in Rom inhaftiert, nachdem er sich dem Protest der Katholischen Arbeitervereinigung angeschlossen hatte.

6. Er wurde bemerkenswert, weil er buchstäblich alles, was er hatte, an die Armen gab. Er würde sogar seinen Busfahrpreis für wohltätige Zwecke verwenden und dann nach Hause laufen, um pünktlich zu den Mahlzeiten zu sein.

7. Als begeisterter und versierter Bergsteiger sah er viele Parallelen zwischen dem katholischen Leben und seinem Lieblingszeitvertreib. Er organisierte regelmäßig Ausflüge in die Berge mit Gelegenheiten für Gebete und Gespräche über den Glauben auf dem Weg vom Gipfel nach oben oder unten.

8. After what would become his final climb he wrote a simple note on a photograph: “Verso L’Alto” (“To the heights”) — a phrase that has become a popular Catholic motto.

9. At 24, Frassati became very ill with polio. Some of his friends believed that he contracted the disease from the people in the slums of Turin. In his last days, he whispered the names of people who still needed assistance to his family and friends who gathered at his bedside. He died on July 4, 1925.

10. Pier Giorgio Frassati wurde 1990 von Papst Johannes Paul II. zum „Gesegneten“ erklärt, der ihn einen „Mann der Seligpreisungen“ und einen „freudigen Apostel Christi“ nannte. Ein Jahr zuvor, nachdem er sein Grab besucht hatte, offenbarte Johannes Paul II., dass er auch in seiner eigenen Jugend „den wohltuenden Einfluss seines Beispiels“ gespürt hatte.

“He left the world rather young,” he said, “but he made a mark upon our entire century.”

11. In ihr biography of her brother, Frassati’s sister, Luciana, wrote that “he represented the finest in Christian youth: pure, happy, enthusiastic about everything that is good and beautiful.”

12. Pier Giorgio Frassati’s popularity is big among young people, especially in America. Many apostolates have been created with his name, and he is regarded as the patron of students (mainly because he wasn’t good at school), young Catholics, mountaineers, youth groups, Catholic Action, Dominican tertiaries (he became one), and World Youth Day.

Dieser Artikel wurde erstmals am 4. Juli 2021 veröffentlicht und aktualisiert.

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