ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 6, 2025 / 12:00 pm

Timothée Croux, a young seminarian from the French diocese of Meaux in the Île-de-France region of the country, says the example of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati played a decisive role in his vocational discernment.

Croux said he discovered Frassati, who was from Turin, Italy, and who died in 1925, through scouting and shares many personal affinities with the soon-to-be saint.

“I delved deeper into Frassati’s personality during my preparatory year, before entering the seminary,” he said. “I discovered that there were many things in his biography that resembled mine. For example, we both have a passion for the mountains.”

“We both sought an authentic vocation, although in the end he decided not to become a priest in order to serve the poor in the

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