Overview

• The Vatican scheduled the rite in St. Peter's Square, where tens of thousands are expected to attend.
• The ceremony will also canonize Pier Giorgio Frassati, an Italian layman known for serving the poor.
• The date was delayed from earlier this year after Pope Francis died, then set under his successor.
• Acutis’s cause advanced after one healing in Brazil led to his 2020 beatification and a later Costa Rica case cleared the way for sainthood.
• In Argentina, a first chapel dedicated to Acutis is under construction in Chacras de Coria, endorsed by his mother and previously blessed by Pope Francis.