The coffin holding the incorrupt body of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will be in Rome for veneration during the Jubilee of Youth from July 26 to August 4. Source: CNA.
According to the Vatican’s jubilee office, the coffin will be transferred from the Cathedral of St John the Baptist in Turin to the Basilica of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva in Rome.
Blessed Frassati, originally scheduled to be canonised on August 3 during the Jubilee of Youth, will now be declared a saint by Pope Leo XIV on Sunday, September 7, together with Blessed Carlo Acutis.
Blessed Frassati’s remains will be displayed in the Basilica of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva until August 4, so that they can be venerated by young people attending jubilee events, when Pope Leo will celebrate the youth jubilee’s closing Mass at the Tor Vergata University campus on the southeastern outskirts of Rome.
The young blessed’s relics were also present at World Youth Day in Sydney in 2008, at the request of Cardinal George Pell.
Blessed Frassati was born to a prominent family in Turin in 1901. He balanced a deep life of faith with active engagement in politics and service to the poor. He joined the Dominican Third Order, climbed Alpine peaks, and distributed food and medicine to the needy in the poorest parts of Turin.
Friday marked 100 years since Pier Giorgio Frassati’s death from polio on July 4, 1925.
When Blessed Frassati’s coffin was opened during his beatification process in 1981, his body was found to be incorrupt, or preserved from the natural process of decay after death.
According to Catholic tradition, incorruptible saints give witness to the truth of the resurrection of the body and the life that is to come.
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Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati’s incorrupt body to be in Rome for Jubilee of Youth (CNA)
