Overview

• The ceremony at St. Peter's on Sunday will be led by Pope Leone XIV, with at least 70,000 people expected in the square according to Italian press.
• The joint canonization brings together a millennial evangelizer known as the patron of the Internet and a 20th-century model of service to the poor.
• Acutis's sainthood is based on two recognized miracles: a 2013 Brazilian healing of a child with pancreas anulare and a 2022 Costa Rican student's recovery from severe cranial trauma.
• The date reflects a calendar change after Pope Francis's death that postponed plans to canonize Acutis during April's Jubilee for Adolescents, following his 2020 beatification by Francis.
• Frassati, beatified in 1990, is revered for mountain spirituality and hands-on charity, while Acutis became known for an online exhibit documenting Eucharistic miracles.