13-06-2025
Blessed Carlo Acutis canonization set in September 7, 2025
Blesses Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia in 2006 aged 15, is seen in this handout photograph released by Friends of Carlo Acutis Association. The late Pope Francis cleared the way for Acutis to be the first saint of the millennial generation. Friends Of Carlo Acutis Association /Handout via REUTERS/File photo
The canonization rite to declare Blessed Carlo Acutis, the "millenial saint," has been set on on September 7, 2025, the Vatican announced.
The announcement was made during the celebration of Terce and the Ordinary Public Consistory for the Canonization of the Blesseds presided by Pope Leo XIV.
"During the Consistory, the Pope decreed that Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, together with Blessed Carlo Acutis, be inscribed in the Book of Saints on Sunday 7 September 2025," according to the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff report posted by the Holy See Press Office.
The initial schedule for the canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis was set in April 2025 was postponed following the death of Pope Francis, in accordance with the 'Ordo Exsequiarum Romani Pontificis' or the 'Rite of Burial for Roman Pontiffs.'
Meanwhile, the canonization of the following Blesseds is set on October 19, 2025:
Ignatius Choukrallah Maloyan, Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Mardin, martyr;
Peter To Rot, layperson and catechist, martyr;
Vincenza Maria Poloni, founder of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Verona;
María del Monte Carmelo Rendiles Martínez, founder of the Congregation of the Servants of Jesus;
Maria Troncatti, professed religious sister of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians;
José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, lay faithful;
Pier Giorgio Frassati, lay faithful of the Third Order of Saint Dominic;
Bartolo Longo, lay faithful.
— BAP, GMA Integrated News
