Luigi Giovanni Giussani was an Italian Catholic priest, theologian, educator, public intellectual, and founder of the international Catholic movement Comunione e Liberazione. His beatification process was opened in 2012.

Communion and Liberation, since 1980 officially Fraternity of Communion and Liberation, it is an international Catholic movement founded in 1954 by Fr. Luigi Giussani as Student Youth, with the aim of presenting the Christian event in a way which is in tune with contemporary culture, making it a source of new values for the modern world. The movement is currently present in ninety countries on nearly every continent.