The earthly reward for his courage was torture and death. He was counting on the heavenly reward.“By manfully giving up my life now, I will prove myself worthy of my old age, and I will leave to the young a noble example of how to die willingly and generously for the revered and holy laws.”
For Pier Giorgio, living life to the full as a devout Catholic was a 24/7 thing - not an hour-on-Sunday commitment. Standing up for the faith earned him insults, fistfights, even arrests. But he did it courageously, manfully, youthfully, joyfully."We Catholics must strive to have our whole life guided by Christian moral law."