Overview

• The canonisation Mass in St. Peter’s Square during the Jubilee is expected to draw tens of thousands and will be Pope Leo XIV’s first, rescheduled after Pope Francis’s death postponed the April date.
• Carlo Acutis was born in London in 1991, raised in Milan, and died in 2006 at age 15 from acute leukaemia.
• A self‑taught coder, he created an online catalogue of Eucharistic miracles translated into many languages, earning the nickname “God’s Influencer.”
• The Vatican has recognised two posthumous miracles attributed to his intercession—healing a Brazilian child with a pancreatic malformation and the recovery of a Costa Rican student after severe head trauma—clearing the way for sainthood.
• His glass‑walled tomb in Assisi, where he lies in jeans and sneakers, has become a major pilgrimage site, and he will be canonised alongside Pier Giorgio Frassati.