Overview

• An estimated 80,000 people filled St. Peter’s Square for the rite, with a strong youth presence and Italy’s president Sergio Mattarella in attendance.
• Vatican authorities recognized two miracles attributed to Acutis—an unexplained 2013 healing in Brazil and a 2022 recovery in Costa Rica—clearing the path to sainthood.
• Antonia Salzano, Acutis’s mother, carried a relic containing a fragment of her son’s heart to the altar during the ceremony.
• Pier Giorgio Frassati was canonized in the same Mass, highlighting youthful models of service and devotion for today’s faithful.
• The event, postponed from April after Pope Francis’s death, marked the first canonization of Pope León XIV’s pontificate.