Public Veneration of Soon-to-Be-Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati’s Body Illustrates That Holy Relics Are Not ‘Just a Quirky Catholic Thing’

The Mass in the Basilica of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva on Aug. 4, 2025, had standing room only, as young pilgrims crowded in for a chance to pray before the incorrupt body of Pier Giorgio Frassati, a 20th-century Italian layman whose body was found intact 60 years after his death, which is considered a miracle.

Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney delivered the homily at the closing Mass of the weeklong public veneration during the Jubilee of Youth, a celebration that drew 1 million Catholic young people to the Eternal City.

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