Overview

• Sunday’s ceremony in St. Peter’s Square will be broadcast live by Vatican Media on YouTube, with thousands of pilgrims expected.
• Pier Giorgio Frassati, renowned for his service to the poor and who died in 1925 at 24, will be canonized in the same rite.
• Carlo Acutis died of leukemia at 15 in 2006 after using his computing talent to build parish websites and a widely exhibited digital catalog of Eucharistic miracles.
• The Vatican recognized two miracles attributed to Acutis: a 2013 healing of a Brazilian boy and the 2022 recovery of Costa Rican student Valeria Valverde after a severe head injury.
• Devotion at Acutis’s tomb in Assisi has intensified with public viewings and organized pilgrimages as the canonization approaches.