Elie Wiesel Hall & Pier Giorgio Frassati Hall

Located in Pioneer Village, Elie Wiesel and Pier Giorgio Frassati Halls house 240+ sophomore residential students primarily in three bedroom (four person) apartments. The buildings are staffed with six student Resident Success Assistants and one Residence Hall Director.

Building Amenities

• Apartment-style housing, consisting primarily of two single bedroom and one double bedroom
• Shared bathroom, living room and kitchen
• Atrium-style common areas
• Card swipe entry
• Laundry facilities on each floor
• All-gender public restrooms on the ground and first floors

Room Amenities

• Window coverings
• Tap card entry to the apartment
• Desks (one per resident)
• Chairs (one per resident)
• Twin bed with built in dresser (one per resident)
• Built-in closet (one per resident)
• Air conditioning/heating unit
• Wireless internet access
• Bathroom with two sinks, one toilet and one shower

Meet the Staff

Rupert Munnings
Residence Hall Director
203-650-0304
munningsr@mail.sacredheart.edu

Resident Success Assistant

• Giovanni Chessa (SRSA)
• Christopher Besnilian
• Makayla Lee
• Xavier Moore
• Layla Marino
• Daniela Colmone

Who is Elie Wiesel?

Elie Wiesel
1928-2016

Elie Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor, teacher, author, activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Born in Romania in 1928, Wiesel was 15 when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He and his two older sisters survived, while his mother, younger sister and father all died before the liberation of 1945. After studying in Paris, Wiesel became a journalist and went on to write his harrowing, internationally-acclaimed memoir Night. Wiesel dedicated his life to standing up to injustice and speaking out for victims of oppression across the world. Even after seeing the worst of humanity in his own early life, Wiesel ultimately believed all people could find courage, compassion and hope within. 

An author of over 60 books, Wiesel was a professor at Boston University and City University of New York, as well as a visiting scholar at Yale University. He received many awards for his human rights work including the Medal of Liberty, National Humanities Medal, Presidential Medal of Freedom and the U.S. Congressional Medal. Before his death in 2016, Wiesel had received over 100 honorary degrees, served as chair of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council and the President’s Commission on the Holocaust and was president of The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. 

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

Who is Pier Giorgio Frassati?

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
1901-1925

Patron of young Catholics, students, mountaineers and World Youth Day, Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic who devoted his short life to social justice and serving the sick and poor. Born in Turin, Italy, in 1901, Frassati joined the St. Vincent de Paul Society at 17 and considered it an honor to care for those in need. He sustained his strength in giving through daily communion in the Holy Eucharist, adoration and meditation. Frassati was passionate about sharing his faith through outdoor adventures, regularly leading mountain-climbing excursions with friends in order to encounter Christ through faith-based conversations, prayer and liturgies. 

A student-activist at Royal Polytechnic University of Turin, Frassati was part of the Catholic Student Foundation, Catholic Action and the Catholic Church’s People’s Party. He unified Catholic students for world peace as organizer of the first Pax Romana convention. Frassati was public in his fight against fascism and also rallied against police violence, most prominently at a Church-organized demonstration in Rome, where he fended off guards while holding up the group’s banner. In 1925, he contracted polio and died at age 24. Frassati was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1990.

“What wealth it is to be in good health, as we are! We have the duty of putting our health at the service of those who do not have it.”

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