pier giorgio, guide my fist (12. 595)

An avid mountaineer, hence his motto “Verso l’alto”—toward the top—and social justice activist and leading member of several charitable organisations in his native Turin, Pier Giorgio Frassati, who as a student helped found an newspaper calling for reform and equity inspired by the papal bull of Leo XIII, Rerum novarum, will be canonised in September after long delays in his cause along with the Blessed Carlo Acutis. One detail omitted about Frassati not mentioned in the press-releases and official hagiography, we learn however via MetaFilter, who the peace-loving individual was no fan of the Mussolini regime and describes (with pious humility) more than one encounter dirty fascists (porci fascisti) and was not above throwing punches to defend his family, the marginalised and the Church from intimidation.