Pier Giorgio Frassati: Episode Three
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🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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October 1922: Mussolini and his fascist supporters march on the Italian capitol of Rome, finally taking control of the government. Celebrations and protests are mounted all over Italy. Against his father's advice, Pier Giorgio attends an anti-fascist demonstration in Turin.
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Pier Giorgio Frassati defends his friend in a fight with Mussolini’s fascists. Pier Giorgio says a rosary while imprisoned, mentioning St. Paul as a role model for him.
There is a sense of foreboding and violence as Pier Giorgio Frassati attends a political event. Violence breaks out at a protest with Mussolini’s fascist blackshirts. Punches are thrown between Pier Giorgio Frassati, his friend Marco, and blackshirt fascists. Police arrest Pier Giorgio Frassati.
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| 0:00.0 | October 1922, Mussolini and his fascist supporters march on the Italian capital of Rome, finally taking control of the government. Celebrations and protests are mounted all over Italy. Against his father's advice, Pierre Giorgio attends an anti-fascist demonstration in Taurin. |
| 0:32.2 | The Saints. Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
| 0:36.7 | Pure Giorgio Frasotti. Episode three, it's nothing. |
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| 1:18.6 | including comprehensive course services and assignments for students working at their own pace. More at the Saintspodcast.com slash Colby. Uch! Uch! Uch! Uch! Uch! Uttes! Oh, God, Italy! Oh, we're trying the day and the government. Viva yudccian! |
| 1:20.6 | Viva! |
| 1:21.6 | Vosolini! |
| 1:22.6 | Viva fascism! |
| 1:24.6 | Today, October 28, 1922, in Rome, the Italian fascist party founder, Benito Mussolini, known as Ilducci, or the leader, has forced the king, Victor Emmanuel III to make him Prime Minister of Italy. |
| 1:42.3 | Over 30,000 of Mussolini's fascist party supporters converged on Rome from all of Italy, |
| 1:49.0 | demanding that Il Duce be made the country's first unelected Prime Minister. |
| 1:54.0 | The King has acquiesced. |
| 1:56.0 | American observers have praised and congratulated Mr. Mussolini for his strong anti-communist stance and the |
| 2:02.0 | protection of order and private property. Others view his accession as an assault on democracy |
| 2:07.0 | that will upend European politics for years to come. All over Italy today there are anti-fascist |
| 2:13.7 | protests in Naples, Bologna, Milano, and right here in Turin. |
| 2:19.3 | Protesters oppose the heavy-handed and anti-democratic policies of the fascists, |
| 2:23.3 | fearing that Italy is entering a new period of authoritarianism and political and social unrest. |
| 2:41.0 | Pasha! and rest. Fascists! Go home! Death to communists! Liberty, freedom, socialism! |
| 2:44.0 | Wow! It's amazing to be here! Right in the middle of all this happening before our eyes! |
| 2:50.0 | We are a part of history in the making. |
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