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Pope Léon XIV Canonizes Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati at St. Peter’s

A youth-centered canonization underscores Vatican outreach to younger Catholics following two authenticated healings.

Un fidèle tient un portrait du bienheureux italien Carlo Acutis à la veille de sa canonisation, lors d'une audience jubilaire sur la place Saint-Pierre au Vatican le 6 septembre 2025
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Le portrait de Pier Giorgio Frassati a été affiché au Vatican au côté de celui de Carlo Acutis avant leur canonisation par Léon XIV.
Tapisserie représentant un portrait de Carlo Acutis accrochée à la basilique Saint-François lors de sa cérémonie de béatification, en 2020 à Assise, en Italie.

Overview

  • The Sunday ceremony in St. Peter’s Square marks the first canonization of Pope Léon XIV during the Jubilee year, with tens of thousands of pilgrims expected.
  • Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia in 2006 at age 15, becomes the Church’s first widely described millennial saint after a swift cause.
  • The Vatican recognized two posthumous healings attributed to Acutis—of a Brazilian child in 2013 and a Costa Rican student in 2022—fulfilling the miracle requirement.
  • Known for online evangelization, Acutis built a widely translated catalogue of eucharistic miracles, and his body draws large crowds at Assisi, where authorities arranged screens and a special train for the canonization day.
  • Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901–1925), an Italian layman noted for social engagement and mountaineering, is canonized alongside Acutis, after the ceremony was postponed from April following Pope Francis’s death.