Overview

• The canonization is set for 7 September in St. Peter's Square, where organizers expect more than 100,000 attendees.
• The ceremony follows a postponement after the death of Pope Francis and has been rescheduled by his successor roughly five months later.
• Assisi has seen booming sales of Carlo-themed souvenirs, and prosecutors opened a case after a purported lock of his hair sold online for €2,110 following a complaint by Bishop Domenico Sorrentino.
• Acutis' remains are on display in Assisi in a glass sarcophagus, shown in jeans and sneakers with a silicone-modeled face and hands.
• A schoolfriend told The Economist he never discussed Jesus with Acutis and never heard the quote now widely attributed to him about the Eucharist.