The young Italian, who died at age 15 in 2006 and known as “The Saint of the Internet”, will be proclaimed with Pier Giorgio Frassati in a ceremony chaired by Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican. It will be the first canonized born in the 1990s.
Carlo Acutis will be canonized on September 7 and will become the first Millennial Holy
The young Italian Carlo Acutis, known as “The Saint of the Internet”, will be canonized on September 7 at a ceremony in the Basilica of San Pedro, chaired by Pope Leo XIV. He will share the ceremony with another Italian, Pier Giorgio Frassati, as decided in the first session held by the new Pontiff.
Acutis’s canonization, who died in 2006 at age 15 for a fulminating leukemia, was originally scheduled for April 27, during the jubilee of adolescents. However, the death of Pope Francis forced to postpone the act. Similarly, the Canonization of Frassati, which was going to be held on July 27 during the jubilee of young people, was reprogrammed to be held in conjunction with Acutis’s.
Who was Carlo Acutis
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Carlo Acutis was born in London in 1991, but lived most of his life in Italy. He stood out since childhood for his deep Catholic faith and for using digital tools to evangelize, which is why he is venerated by thousands of young people around the world. His body is exposed in Assisi, where he is visited daily by pilgrims.
The Acutis canonization process has been one of the fastest in the recent history of the Church. He was declared venerable by Pope Francis in 2018, beatified in 2020 and will now be proclaimed Holy only 19 years after his death.
The Miracles of Carlo Acutis
The Congregation for the Causes of the Saints recognized two miracles attributed to its intercession. He first It was the healing, in 2013, of a Brazilian child with a serious malformation of the pancreas. He second It happened in 2022, when a young Costa Rican, seriously injured after a bicycle accident, began to recover the same day that her mother pilgrimage to Acutis’s tomb to pray for her.
In the same ceremony of September 7, other saints will also be canonizedincluding Venezuelans José Gregorio Hernández and Carmen Rendiles, who will become the first saints of that country. The date set for canonization is October 19.
They complete the list of new canonizations: Armenian archbishop Ignacio Choukrallah Maloyan, the layman of Papua New Guinea Peter To Rot, the Italian religious Vincenza Maria Poloni and María Troncatti, and the Italian layman Bartolo Longo.
Source: Ambito
