关于祝福码头Giorgio Frassati生活的12个惊人事实

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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.

根据 致力于他的网站 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. 在很小的时候，他加入了玛丽安的圣餐和祈祷的使徒，并获得了接受每日圣餐的许可，这在当时是罕见的。

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

4. 17岁时，他加入了圣文森特·德保罗协会(St. Vincent de Paul Society)，并将大部分业余时间用于照顾从第一次世界大战中返回的穷人、无家可归者、病人和复员军人。

5. 1919年，弗拉萨蒂加入了天主教学生基金会和人民党，其原则基于教会的社会学说。 他强烈反对法西斯领袖贝尼托·墨索里尼的崛起，并在加入天主教工人协会的抗议后被监禁在罗马。

6. 他因为把所有的东西都给了穷人而引人注目。 他甚至会把公交车票用于慈善事业，然后跑回家准时吃饭。

7. 一个狂热而有成就的登山者，他看到了天主教生活和他最喜欢的消遣之间的许多相似之处。 他会定期组织山上的旅行，在山顶上或从山顶上下来的路上祈祷和对话。

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. 1990年，教皇约翰保罗二世宣布乔治·弗拉萨蒂"受祝福"，教皇约翰保罗二世称他为"仁慈的人"和"基督的快乐使徒"。 一年前，约翰保罗二世在参观坟墓后透露，他在自己的青年时期也感受到了"他的榜样的有益影响"。

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

11. 在她 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.

本文于2021年7月4日首次发表，并已更新。

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