Christine Wojhar is the founder and head of Frassati USA.

She was host of the EWTN series Sanctity Within Reach, Pierre Giorgio Frasati, and co-editor of

Pierre Giorgio Frasati letters to his friends and family. She is now the author of a book,

finding Frasati and following his path to holiness. That is our topic today. Welcome, Ms. Wohar.

Thank you. I guess the first place to begin is with an overview of the life of Blessed Pierre Giorgio, who was he? Where was he? Maybe some of our people

are unfamiliar with him and should be, but tell us about him. Sure. We include a little, there's a little

biography of him at the front of the book just for that very reason for people who might not be

familiar with him. But I hope they're getting more and more familiar with him because it's been

announced that we expect his canonization to happen next summer, the Jubilee Year 2025. So I hope that will create a greater, wider, even more awareness of Puerto

Giorgio.

So he was really a contemporary blessed in that he was born in 1901.

He died in 1925.

So he just lived a short life of 24 years, which not unlike some of the other great young saints like St. Therese lived to be 24.

And he was an Italian. His father was a very influential Italian man. He founded the newspaper La Stampa still on the newsstands today.

He became the youngest senator for the kingdom of Italy

and later the ambassador to Germany right after World War I. So it was an important political

position, not just like a little favor handout of an ambassadorship. So Pierre Georgia was exposed to

great political influence, cultural influence. His mother was a painter, amateur painter, but

very, very good, studied with very good painters in her area. There's a book of her painting,

in fact. And so he, because of her artistic endeavors, he was exposed to a lot of that

artistic side of things, as well as the political side from his father.

So from an early age, he was exposed to a lot of things that gave him an opportunity to be worldly, and yet he chose to be more otherworldly.

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