St Carlo Acutis & St Pier Giorgio Frassati
“Dear friends, Saints Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis are an invitation to all of us, especially young people, not to squander our lives, but to direct them upwards and make them masterpieces.” (Pope Leo XIV)
Discover the lives of two of the Church’s newest and most beloved saints with revised and expanded CTS biographies.
St Carlo Acutis & St Pier Giorgio Frassati
Carlo Acutis: Saint of the Young
“Jesus is our hope… Let us remain united to him, let us remain in his friendship, always, cultivating it through adoration, Eucharistic Communion, frequent Confession, and generous charity, as Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis taught us. Aspire to great things, to holiness, wherever you are. Do not settle for less.”
Pope Leo XIV
“One day, Brother Masseo, one of the earliest followers of St Francis, asked why everyone wanted to follow him: “Say, why is it that all the world seems to be running after you, and everyone seems to want to see you, and hear you, and obey you?” 800 years later, the phenomenon of St Carlo Acutis raises the same question. The simple answer is that Carlo, like Francis, does not point to himself, but to God. “Not I, but God,” as he repeated. The secret to the holiness of the saints is “losing themselves” to become one with God through Jesus, especially in the Eucharist and charity, allowing His smile to shine on their face, making it glow and attract with the “Smile of Heaven.” This “smile” illumines the life, miracles and graces, and the call to be a saint in the “five steps” of Carlo Acutis. I invite you to read this truly beautiful, agile, and inspiring book with the desire to be a saint. It is historically well documented. Theologically profound. Offering everyone, at whatever stage in their journey, a roadmap to Heaven in the footsteps of Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint.”
Robert Cardinal Sarah
(Prefect Emeritus, Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments)
Note: This is an updated edition of Blessed Carlo Acutis: 5 Steps to Being a Saint.
Pier Giorgio Frassati
A young man who spent his short life caring for the sick and infirm. A handsome and active young man from an influential family in Turin who dedicated his short life to the care of the poor and the sick and working for social and political reforms. Pier Giorgio Frassati’s generosity was legendary. He often gave the clothes he was wearing to poor people he met who were in need. An open anti-fascist, a keen sportsman and mountaineer, an enthusiast of the theatre and literature, and a young man with a great devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, he stands as a great example of Christianity in action. His life was cut short by polio at the age of 24 and thousands of the Italian industrial city’s poor lined the streets at his funeral.