Relics of patron of young people arrive in Poland
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
18.07.2016 10:05
The relics of the Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, the patron of students and young people, have arrived from Turin in Italy to Poland.
Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz (left) at a Mass in Warsaw with the relics of the Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. Photo: PAP/Leszek Szymański
The relics will be taken to several churches, first to St Ann’s Church in Warsaw, which runs a wide-ranging student chaplaincy programme.
In a homily during a mass on Sunday, Polish Cardinal Kazimierz Nycz described Frassati as a model to be followed by the young people of today, “a man of both prayer and the Eucharist and of action that is rooted in contemplation”.
From Warsaw, the relics of Frassati will go to several churches, before being displayed at the Basilica of the Holy Trinity of the Dominican Fathers in Kraków, southern Poland, during World Youth Days starting on July 27.
A member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society and several other Catholic organizations, Pier Giorgio Frassati dedicated his life to helping the poor and suffering. He had a profound spiritual life which he shared openly with his friends.
He was also a mountain climber. He died from polio in 1925, at the age of 24. He was beatified in 1990 by Pope John Paul II.
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