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People attending mass Tuesday night at St. Hedwig Church in the Bucktown neighborhood were set to be able to see the relic from Carlo Acutis.
The canonization of Carlo Acutis, the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint, will take place on September 7, 2025, Pope Leo XIV has announced.
Acutis is proof that anyone can become a saint in the Catholic Church, an aspiration that any believer is encouraged to achieve. But the church’s process of canonization, with its many steps and ...
First millennial saint Carlo Acutis will be canonized Sept. 7, the pope says The body of Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia, lies in his tomb in Assisi, Italy, on March 1, 2025.
First millennial saint Carlo Acutis will be canonized Sept. 7, the pope says Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old who used the internet to share his Catholic faith before dying of leukemia, will become the ...
Carlo Acutis is probably the first beatified person to ever go viral. On Oct. 10, he was declared “blessed” by the church during a live-streamed Mass in Assisi, Italy.
Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St. Peter’s Square. But throngs of pilgrims are already flocking to the ...
Canonization of first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, postponed indefinitely after Pope Francis’ death By . Daryl Khan. Published April 21, 2025. Updated April 21, 2025, 8:04 p.m. ET.
People pray in front of the body of Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia and was beatified in 2020, at the Santa Maria Maggiore Church in Assisi, Italy, Wednesday ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The canonization of the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, has been postponed due to the death Monday of Pope Francis, the Vatican announced.
Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St. Peter’s Square. But throngs of pilgrims are already flocking to the ...
An image of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis is unveiled during his beatification ceremony, celebrated by Cardinal Agostino Vallini in the St. Francis Basilica, in Assisi, Italy, on Oct. 10, 2020.