Canonization of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati

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On 7 September 2025, two blessed candidates, Carlo Acutis (3 May 1991 – 12 October 2006) and Pier Giorgio Frassati (6 April 1901 – 4 July 1925), were both canonized in the Vatican City by Pope Leo XIV, who had begun his papacy on 8 May 2025. Pope Francis had planned to canonize Carlo Acutis as the first millennial saint on 27 April, and Pier Giorgio Frassati at the end of August. However, Pope Francis died on 21 April, so the canonization was postponed. Following Pope Francis's death and the election of Pope Leo XIV, the date of the canonization was set on 13 June at the Apostolic Palace. The canonization drew over 80,000 people that gathered in St. Peter's Square. Pope Leo XIV decreed that both Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati would be inscribed in the Register of Saints, along with Blessed Ignazio Choukrallah Maloyan, Peter To Rot, Vincenza Maria Poloni, Maria del Monte Carmelo Rendiles Martinez, José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros and Bartolo Longo, who would be canonized on 19 October.

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