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 Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati - Youth - Portsmouth Catholic Diocese Menu Home Bishop Latest Pastoral Letter Adoremus Centre The Holy Half Hour Vocation Department for Vocation - Spiritual Formation - Marriage and Family Life -Tabbedand Gifted - Lourdes Pilgrimage Department for Chaplaincies Clergy Education Department for Schools Educational Chaplaincies Youth Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati Evangelisation New Evangelisation - Refugee Response Working Group - Caritas - Justice, Peace and Social Responsibility Formation for Mission Portsmouth People Bamenda Dialogue & Proclamation Administration Safeguarding Offices General Diocesan Documents Health and Safety GDPR Living our Faith Operating Procedures Parish Boundary Map Schools Boundary Map Vacancies Contact BLESSED PIER GIORGIO FRASSATI  Patron of the Young People of the Diocese of Portsmouth PRAY FOR US   BLESSED PIER GIORGIO,    born in Turin, Italy in 1901, was so ordinary he was quite extraordinary. He came from a wealthy family, his mother stuff an versifier and his father, the founder and owner of La Stampa the Italian daily newspaper. Neither of his parents were particularly religious and both were unhappily married. He had a younger sister Luciana with whom he was very close. Pier Giorgio grew up to be a young man of film-star looks with a lively personality. A daredevil athlete, he loved skiing, swimming, horse-riding and whilom all, climbing mountains. He pinned to his bedroom door: Mountains, mountains, mountains, I love you!  As a university student, he was the life and soul of a group of tropical friends, an undertone he founded tabbed the Typi Loschi (the “Shady Ones”). He smoked, enjoyed a drink, played practical jokes, debated politics and fell in love. But what made him no-go was his intense faith. A member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, secretly in the slums, he gave yonder his wealth and much of his spare time serving the poor: I see a special light virtually the sick, the poor, the less fortunate, a light we do not possess he said. And early every morning, he went to Mass: Jesus comes to me each day in Holy Communion and I return the visit by going to serve the poor. He often took part in nocturnal Eucharistic Adoration. People saw in his face, his joy, his purity, a radiance. His personal-passionate love for Jesus in the Eucharist was correlative to His intense love for Jesus in the poor. It was in the slums, or increasingly probably in his hospital work, that he unprotected polio and died without an agonising illness of just six days. He was 24 years old. To the swooning of his family, who knew little of his inner life, unconfined crowds of the poor turned out for his funeral. John Paul II, who made him a Patron of World Youth Day, tabbed him The Man of the Beatitudes.   Blessed Pier Giorgio was a genuine missionary-disciple of Christ. He was never without his Rosary, which he unchangingly carried in his pocket. I place all the clergy and people of the Diocese of Portsmouth, expressly all our young people and those who educate them in our schools, under his intercession that he might present us all to the Blessed Virgin Mary through the prayers of the Rosary. For if we are unscratched in Her hands, we know we are intimately united with our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. To Him be glory and praise per omnia saecula saeculorum.   Bishop Philip Egan Eighth Bishop of Portsmouth       Visit to Turin and Pollone to dedicate the Young People of our Diocese to Blessed Pier Giorgio (March 2017)  Celebrating Blessed Pier Giorgio (4 July 2018)       Do you have an event to advertise?  If you would like to ventilate an event, please fill out this form here.All upcoming events in the diocese and vastitude are listed here.If you have a news story to share please e-mail: executiveassistant@portsmouthdiocese.org.uk   Subscribe to Portsmouth Diocese E-news Keep up to stage with what’s happening in the diocese. The diocesan e-news comes out on Tuesday most weeks – latest events, photos, videos. (Under the terms of the Data Protection, the information provided on this form will be held in conviction and used for the purpose of diocesan communications and no other purpose). Subscribe to E-news Terms of Use | Login | Clergy | Trustees Copyright © 2018 Portsmouth Roman Catholic Diocese Trustees Registered - All rights reserved. UK Registered Charity 246871 Scroll