Overview

• The canonization is set for Sept. 7 in St. Peter's Square at 10 a.m. local time, with no tickets required for general access, the Vatican says.
• The Mass will also canonize Pier Giorgio Frassati and will be Pope Leo XIV’s first canonization since his election in May.
• Acutis was born in London in 1991, raised in Milan, and before dying of leukemia at 15 he built an online catalogue of Eucharistic miracles and parish websites.
• The Vatican attributes to his intercession the healing of a Brazilian child’s pancreatic defect and a Costa Rican student’s recovery from severe head trauma, meeting the requirement for sainthood.
• Postponed from April after Pope Francis’s death, the event coincides with youth Jubilee celebrations and is expected to draw tens of thousands, with Assisi hosting giant screens and sending a special train to Rome.