1,000 Piece Toy Soldier Mosaic of St. Pier Giorgio Frassati

All black and grey figures represent the homeless and poor of Turin, IT who came out to St. Pier Giorgio's funeral in droves at the great surprise of his family. The only 3 colored figures represent his immediate family. Pink for his sister Luciana, yellow for his mother Adelaide, and royal purple for his father Alfredo.

“To the heights”, is a saying that St. Frassati wrote on a photograph of himself climbing a mountain. While St. Pier Giorgio loved to hike, his greatest love was Jesus in the Eucharist. The highest point of his life was the high point at Mass when the Priest consecrated and raised our Lord. In this piece, Jesus’ blood & water flows directly from His side, down Golgotha, and into an overflowing chalice next to St. Frassati’s mouth. 

The mountainous background was completed using imaginative prayer. After its completion, Johnny decided to look up where St. Pier Giorgio used to hike. To his astonishment, he discovered that the background was an exact replica of Mt. Macrone. The same lake, shape, size, color, and topography. And there is even a massive cross on the edge of a massive cliff. This was confirmation for Johnny that St. Frassati was interceding for this project. 

One of the most famous photos of St. Frassati is him standing at the top of a mountain peak with a pipe in mouth. He enjoyed smoking tobacco. 

St. Frassati’s first miracle was in 1933, a 40 year old named Domenico was suffering from tuberculosis disease of the spine and he was miraculously healed. 

St. Frassati’s second miracle was a seminarian named Juan Gutierrez (Johnny met him during Jubilee of youth as both were being interviewed on EWTN) who tore his achilles tendon playing basketball in 2017. He felt a warmth while praying in the chapel and at his next appointment the orthopedic surgeon could not find the tear.

St. Pier Giorgio's wealthy father was the creator of the famous Italian paper La Stampa which was the main source of news back in his time. 

His mother, much like his Father, was nominally Catholic. However, she was a famous artist and created a painting for King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.

St. Pier Giorgio owned very little, but he loved his bike. He rode 50 miles between Turin and Bologna. When it was eventually stolen he said, “someone must've needed it more than me.”

St. Frassati’s casket is very small signifying that he became the lowest of the low as Jesus did. Inside are 3 flowers, signifying his incorruptibility with the power of the Holy Trinity sustaining his Earthly body. It is at the top of the piece as the people who he served carry him to the heights of Heaven. 

The Frassati family had three dogs growing up. St. Pier Giorgio would write greetings to them when he wrote to his sister. 

St. Frassati would sometimes prank his friends while on trips by waking them up with a trumpet. 

St. Pier Giorgio was known by his teachers to be, “the last one to stop laughing.” 

The 8 pointed mountain peaks represent this quote from JPII, “Pier Giorgio is the man of the 8 beatitudes.” 

Hiking was his favorite pastime. The climbing rope is tied in a knot called the Figure Eight knot, signifying God's infinite love for us.