Do you know Blessed (soon to be Saint) Pier Giorgio Frassati?

I don’t recall the first time that I heard of “Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati,” but during my years in the seminary and early years as a priest, I would hear his name from time to time. I believe he may have been a “featured Blessed” at one of the World Youth Days I attended. From the early years and throughout his pontificate, Pope John Paul II offered Blessed Pier Giorgio as a model for young Catholics. During his visit to Turin in April 1980, Pope John Paul “commented on Pier Giorgio’s ‘response’ to Christ: