Overview

• Pope Leo XIV led an open-air Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sept. 7, with the Vatican estimating about 80,000 attendees and reporting 36 cardinals, 270 bishops and hundreds of priests participating.
• Pier Giorgio Frassati was also declared a saint during the same ceremony.
• Acutis’ canonization followed recognition of two miracles: the healing of a Brazilian child with a rare pancreatic malformation and the recovery of a Costa Rican student after severe head trauma.
• Born in London in 1991 and raised in Milan, Acutis created a multilingual website cataloging Eucharistic miracles, earning the nickname “God’s influencer.”
• Pilgrims continue to flock to his glass-tomb in Assisi, and the canonization—originally slated for April—was rescheduled after Pope Francis’ death in April.