Overview

• Pope Leo XIV presided at St. Peter’s Square in his first canonizations since election, drawing tens of thousands to the ceremony.
• Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006 at age 15 from leukemia, was widely known as a “Cyber‑Apostle” for cataloging eucharistic miracles online.
• The Vatican’s decision cited two medically unexplained healings: a Brazilian boy in 2011 and an Italian case in 2022.
• Pier Giorgio Frassati was also declared a saint during the rite, with their relics presented and large portraits displayed on St. Peter’s Basilica.
• Pilgrimage to Acutis’s glass reliquary in Assisi continues as debate grows over commercialization, family influence and contested miracle narratives.