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Pier Giorgio once wrote that we should never just exist but live. Although his life was short, it was packed full of interests and activities from the mundane to the sublime.
He engaged in so many areas of athletics including swimming, sailing, skiing, hiking, mountain-climbing, biking, fencing, ice-skating, horseback riding. He studied agriculture and engineering. He took piano and dance lessons and loved to sing. He could recite poetry and long passages of Dante. He translated books from Latin to Italian. He was a meticulous collector. He spoke several languages. He loved the opera, theater and art museums. He traveled extensively and enjoyed photography. He could be loud and boisterous or deafeningly reverent. He was at home with the homeless on the streets as well as members of the highest classes in the embassy ballroom. He had a rich sense of humor and a limitless love for God, the Church, his country and his fellow man. He lacked earthly ambition but he was driven and his life was intentional."He was a man who didn’t complain or feel embarrassed about doing anything, as long as it was done for the glory of God. And so he could be seen moving the pews in church, sweeping the floor, laying the altar cloths, carrying plants, changing the water in the vases, setting out the sacred vestments and helping the priest to vest. He could be limping along on a crutch, pale and tired after one of his mountain excursions, or happy, healthy and full of strength – it didn’t matter." ~ Luciana Frassati