TALLINN, Estonia — Lay Dominicans, inquirers and young adults gathered in Tallinn from March 27–29 for the retreat “Dominican Paths to Holiness: Preaching by Lay Dominicans,” a weekend of prayer, formation and fraternity centered on the preaching mission of the laity in the Dominican family. Held at the Bridgettine Convent Guest House in Pirita, the retreat brought together members of…
The International Dominican Youth Movement (IDYM) is delighted to announce that its next International Elective Assembly will take place in Santiago, Chile, from August 9-15, 2026. This will be the first global in-person gathering since Lisbon 2023, when young Dominicans celebrated both the centenary of Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati’s entrance into the Order and the thirtieth anniversary of the movement.…
“Strengthening ourselves in Grace to attain the Eternal Prize” : Towards the Holy Year with Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. On Saturday, November 30th, 2024, in the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome, a time of prayer and adoration took place, under the title “‘Strengthening ourselves in Grace to attain the Eternal Prize’. Towards the Holy Year with Blessed Pier…
On Saturday, 14 December 2024, the Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati Fraternity of the Province of Poland gathered at Fort VII to pray for peace in union with the entire Dominican Order. December is a month of Dominican prayer for peace. In this year we remember first and foremost Haiti, a republic whose inhabitants have been experiencing multiple forms of violence for…
In 1922, Pier Giorgio joined the Dominican Order as a lay member, embracing a profound commitment to prayer and study. Inspired by St. Dominic, St. Catherine of Siena, and St. Thomas Aquinas, his journey reflected deep spiritual devotion.
A new canonization for a member of the Dominican Family: Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati. In his general audience on 20 November 2024, Pope Francis announced that this event will take place as part of the Jubilee of Young People, as the highlight of the summer days dedicated to young people during the coming Holy Year. The young student from Turin,…
“The Blessed gave glory to his Order with all the passion and pride of being a member of it with all his faith and all his strength” (Nicola Gori). Looking ahead to the canonization of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic, who will be raised to the altars during Holy Mass on August…
On the occasion of the Jubilee of Youth, the incorrupt body of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati — which has rested in the Cathedral of Turin since 1990 — will arrive in Rome for the first time, at the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, where it will be welcomed by the Dominican friar community. The relic of the young man from Turin will arrive at the basilica in the evening of July 25 and will remain on display for veneration until August 4, as confirmed by the Diocese of Rome, highlighting that this is the first time the blessed’s body will be venerated in Rome.
On Saturday, July 26, 2025, the Holy Mass celebrated at 6:00 p.m. in the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva by Cardinal Baldassare Reina, the Pope’s Vicar General for the Diocese of Rome, marked the official opening of the program of veneration for the incorrupt body of Pier Giorgio Frassati, a layman of the Dominican Third Order. His body was brought for the first time to Rome from the Cathedral of Turin on the occasion of the Jubilee of Young People.
The young Dominican tertiary will be canonized during the Jubilee, one hundred years after his return to the house of the Father in the Holy Year of 1925. “With gratitude to God, Giver of all good things, the Dominican Family rejoices in the announcement by Pope Francis that our brother Pier Giorgio Frassati will be canonized,” wrote the Master of…
