Pope Francis officially opened the 2025 Jubilee Year: Peregrinantes in Spem (Pilgrims in hope) on 24 December 2024. His Holiness Pope Francis announced in November 2024 that during the Jubilee of Youth, He will canonise Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, "The Man of the Eight Beatitudes".
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The Jubilee of Youth is one of many major Jubilee events taking place this year. His Holiness Pope Francis announced in November 2024 that during the Jubilee of Youth, He will canonise Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati.
In 1977 the then Cardinal Karol Wojtyla later Pope Saint John Paul II called him "The Man of the Eight Beatitudes" and during the beatification homily in May 1990 He called him “a man of the Beatitudes”.
Jubilee of Youth and Canonisation of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
28 July - 03 August 2025
Locations: Vatican (St. Peter’s Basilica / St. Peter’s Square)
Rome (Circus Maximus / Tor Vergata)
29 July 2025
16:00 GMT (18:00 LT) (approx. time)
Welcoming Mass to the Church of Rome in St. Peter's Square
01 August 2025
08:30 - 16:00 GMT (10:30 - 18:00 LT) (approx. time)
Penitential day at the Circus Maximus
• with the option of receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation
02 August 2025
13:00 - 18:00 GMT (15:00 - 20:00 LT) (approx. time)
Entertainment, music, and testimonies
18:30 - 19:30 GMT (20:30 - 21:30 LT) (approx. time)
Vigil with the Holy Father in Tor Vergata
03 August 2025
07:30 GMT (09:30 LT) (approx. time)
Mass presided over by the Holy Father at Tor Vergata
03 August 2025
Time TBC
Canonisation of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
Please note official broadcast schedule to be confirmed.
