Overview

• The ceremony is set for Sept. 7 at 10 a.m. local time in St. Peter's Square, with tens of thousands expected, according to the Vatican and media reports.
• Italian layman Pier Giorgio Frassati will be canonized at the same Mass.
• The case rests on two Vatican-recognized miracles attributed to Acutis: the healing of a Brazilian child and the recovery of a Costa Rican student.
• Acutis, born in London and raised in Milan, died of leukemia in 2006 at age 15 after using his coding skills to build a widely cited website on Eucharistic miracles.
• His glass-tomb resting place in Assisi has become a major pilgrimage site, with large groups traveling to Rome for the canonization, including a special train from Assisi.