Overview

• An open‑air Mass in St. Peter’s Square drew an estimated 80,000 people as Carlo Acutis was proclaimed a saint.
• This was Pope Leo XIV’s first canonization ceremony after the April postponement that followed Pope Francis’ death.
• Acutis, born in London and raised in Milan, taught himself programming and created a website documenting more than 100 Eucharistic miracles.
• The church recognized two miracles attributed to his intercession: the healing of a Brazilian child with a pancreatic defect and a Costa Rican student’s recovery from severe head trauma.
• Pier Giorgio Frassati was canonized at the same Mass, with Leo urging young people to make their lives “masterpieces,” as devotion to Acutis continues at his glass‑fronted tomb in Assisi.