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Pope León XIV Canonizes Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati in St. Peter's Square

The rite spotlights the Church’s outreach to young Catholics by elevating a digital-age witness alongside a lay champion of the poor.

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Carlo Acutis, santo millennial
Assisi (Italy), 07/09/2025.- A faithful looks at the body of Saint Carlo Acutis at the Sanctuary of the Renunciation in Assisi, Italy, 07 September 2025. Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager who died in 2006, will be canonized by Pope Leo XIV in a ceremony at the Vatican, becoming the first millennial saint. (Papa, Italia) EFE/EPA/GIANLUIGI BASILIETTI
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Overview

  • The ceremony is the first canonization presided over by Pope León XIV after an April date was postponed following Pope Francis’s death.
  • Acutis, widely described as the Church’s first millennial saint, is celebrated for using the internet to evangelize, including a website cataloging Eucharistic miracles.
  • His canonization follows a 2020 beatification after a Brazilian boy’s healing and a Vatican recognition in November 2024 of a second miracle linked to a 2022 recovery in Costa Rica.
  • Acutis’s mother, Antonia Salzano, presents a heart relic at the altar during the St. Peter’s Square liturgy.
  • Frassati, a Turin layman known for service to the poor who died of poliomyelitis in 1925, is canonized alongside Acutis as thousands of mostly young pilgrims attend.