Overview

• During a packed liturgy in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leone XIV read the canonization formula for the two lay Italians as their relics were venerated.
• Rome’s police counted roughly 70,000 attendees and deployed more than 600 officers, while Italy’s president Sergio Mattarella joined officials on the sagrato.
• The Church cited two medically unexplained recoveries attributed to Carlo Acutis’ intercession—a Brazilian child with a pancreatic malformation and a Costa Rican student with severe cranial trauma—as grounds for his sainthood.
• Pier Giorgio Frassati, a 24-year-old Turin layman beatified in 1990, is honored for joyful service to the poor and a spirituality expressed through study, friendship, and the mountains.
• Large crowds also gathered in Assisi at the Santuario della Spogliazione, where Acutis’ remains are displayed, as pilgrimages and youth-focused initiatives continue.