{"id":7499,"date":"2025-09-05T22:29:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/?p=7499"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:17:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:17:44","slug":"carlo-acutis-and-pier-giorgio-frassati-from-jesuit-schools-to-sainthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/carlo-acutis-and-pier-giorgio-frassati-from-jesuit-schools-to-sainthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati: from Jesuit schools to sainthood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>On Sunday, September 7th, in St. Peter\u2019s Square, Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati will be proclaimed saints. Two young men who lived in different times, yet united by a deep faith, a life dedicated to others, and their bond with Jesuit schools: Carlo as a student at the Istituto Leone XIII in Milan, Pier Giorgio at the Istituto Sociale in Turin.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the occasion of their canonization, the Jesuits\u2019 Euro-Mediterrean Province collected the testimonies of teachers who knew them or studied their lives. What emerges is the portrait of \u201cordinary\u201d young people &#8211; passionate, curious, able to build authentic relationships and to show concrete attention to those most in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two paths that today speak to schools, educators, and parents: behind every student lies a unique story and a potential for goodness that can blossom into holiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-jesuits wp-block-embed-jesuits\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zTcMHwujiO\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jesuits-eum.org\/acutis-and-frassati-top-of-the-class-no-saints-in-life-advice-for-todays-teachers\/\">Acutis and Frassati: Top of the Class? No, Saints in Life. Advice for Today\u2019s Teachers<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Acutis and Frassati: Top of the Class? No, Saints in Life. Advice for Today\u2019s Teachers&#8221; &#8212; Jesuits\" src=\"https:\/\/jesuits-eum.org\/acutis-and-frassati-top-of-the-class-no-saints-in-life-advice-for-todays-teachers\/embed\/#?secret=T1hdKULq0S#?secret=zTcMHwujiO\" data-secret=\"zTcMHwujiO\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, September 7th, in St. Peter\u2019s Square, Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati will be proclaimed saints. Two young men who lived in different times, yet united by a deep faith, a life dedicated to others, and their bond with Jesuit schools: Carlo as a student at the Istituto Leone XIII in Milan, Pier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[299],"tags":[],"istituto":[],"partner":[],"class_list":["post-7499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7501,"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499\/revisions\/7501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7499"},{"taxonomy":"istituto","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/istituto?post=7499"},{"taxonomy":"partner","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gesuitieducazione.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partner?post=7499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}