Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati: An Ordinary Christian

Athletic, handsome, and always good for a laugh, Pier Giorgio Frassati was the charismatic leader of a band of rowdy friends. He smoked, pulled pranks, relished extreme sports, and fiercely debated politics into the night. At the same time, he secretly gave away his wealth to help the poor and plunged eagerly into intense experiences of Eucharistic prayer. This inspiring biography of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati captures the spirit, adventuresome personality, and forthright love of a young man who wrested holiness from everyday life, and whom Saint John Paul II would later applaud as “a man of the Beatitudes.”