Verso L’Alto, To The Highest, Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati quote pendant necklace or keychain, Confirmation gift, Baptism Gift, Christening

Verso L’Alto, To The Highest, Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati quote pendant necklace or keychain, Confirmation gift, Baptism Gift, Christening gift

'Verso L'Alto!' 'To The Highest!' quote by Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati on pendant necklace or keychain. It is printed on photo paper and sealed beneath a glass dome [Ø 25 mm] and fixed at Antique Bronze or Antique Silver circle bezel tray [36x28x3 mm]. It is made into your choice of either a necklace or keychain and packed in a black velvet bag [9x7 cm or 7x5 cm].

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati was known for his joy and jokes, his athleticism, his care for the poor, his political activism, his selflessness, and for challenging his friends to virtue. His life illustrates that the words faithful, virtuous, joyful, zealous, athletic, studious, and servant can all be used to describe a person who is animated by the Gospel message of Jesus Christ.

Born to a wealthy family, Frassati lived frugally and gave his money—and several times even the shoes or coat he was wearing—to the poor. His father was an agnostic, an Italian senator and the founder of a liberal newspaper. Neither he nor his wife were very affectionate with their children. Frassati’s parents disapproved of his faith, but this did not keep him from his daily Mass and rosary, and sometimes whole nights of Eucharistic adoration. He was often scolded for being late for meals, but he never revealed that his tardiness was due to feeding the poor, running errands to buy them medicine, or finding widows and their children a place to stay for the night. The few times that his parents caught Pier Giorgio giving his things away, they punished him.

"By his example, he proclaims that a life lived in Christ's Spirit, the Spirit of the Beatitudes, is 'blessed,' and that only the person who becomes a 'man or woman of the Beatitudes' can succeed in communicating love and peace to others. He repeats that it is really worth giving up everything to serve the Lord. He testifies that holiness is possible for everyone, and that only the revolution of charity can en-kindle the hope of a better future in the hearts of people."
Saint John Paul II