FRASSATI, PIER GIORGIO. - Servant of God, born in Torino on 6 April 1901, died there on 4 July 1925. In addition to his family upbringing, his membership in Catholic organizations contributed to his formation: the Marian Congregation among the Jesuits; the Dominican Third Order; F. U. C. 1.; the Conferences of St Vincent, of which he was a most zealous confrere. A candidate for a degree in mining industrial engineering, he was struck down by death in three days. An advocate of social Christianity, he was active in the Popular Party until the advent of Fascism, from which, like his father, he suffered threats and persecution. His fame was spread by the Testimonianze della vita (A. Cojazzi, P. G. F., Torino 1928), which by 1949 had reached one hundred thousand copies, in addition to translations into fifteen European languages and summaries in Japanese and Chinese.
Inspired by St Paul, St Catherine, and Savonarola, he realized the experience of a Christianity understood as the visible and permanent relationship of conscience with God. By putting it into practice through the essential values of active fraternity, consistency and simplicity of life, and the proper enjoyment of nature, he bore witness to his contemporaries to the enduring nature and continual adaptation of Christ’s doctrine to the needs of every age. At the initiative of Card. G. Gamba, archbishop of Torino, the Curia opened and brought to completion, subsequently transmitting the acts to Rome, the informative process concerning this servant of God.