The Pope has announced that fourteen Blesseds will be canonised on 20 October this year.
While Blessed Carlo Acutis' canonisation was also given official approval during the consistory held 1 July, Pope Francis said his canonisation will be held "at a date to be determined”, <a href="https://aleteia.org/2024/07/01/carlos-canonization-date-still-on-hold"><mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color">reports</mark></a> <em>Aleteia</em>.
Anticipation about when Acutis could become a saint has been growing since 23 May this year, when the Vatican's Dicastery for Saints' Causes announced that another miracle had been attributed to the intercession of Acutis.<br><br>Blessed Carlo Acutis will be the first so-called millennial to be made a saint, <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-07/consistory-cardinals-carlo-acutis-martyrs-canonization.html"><mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color">notes</mark></a> <em>Vatican New</em>s.
During the “ordinary” public consistory that took place in the Vatican Consistory Hall, it was announced that those to be canonised on 20 October are as follows:
Another factor driving speculation about Acutis’ date is that Pope Francis <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/pope-lets-slip-that-blessed-pier-giorgio-frassati-will-be-a-saint-soon/"><mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color">recently let slip</mark></a> that Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will “be a saint soon”.
This has led some Vatican commentators to contend that the two young Italians – Acutis died aged 15, while Pier Giorgio Frassati was 24 – might be canonised together as "companion saints" in the midst of the <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/pilgrimage-emphasised-by-vatican-as-opportunity-for-indulgences-during-jubilee-2025/"><mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color">celebrations accompanying Jubilee 2025</mark></a>. Both have garnered huge followings, especially among younger Catholics.
<a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/pier-giorgio-frassati-closer-to-canonisation-cardinal-says/?swcfpc=1"><mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color">Pier Giorgio Frassati </mark></a>was born in the Piedmont region of Italy on 6 April 1901. He devoted his life to serving the poor, before dying of polio in 1925.
Carlo Actuis was born in London on 3 May 1991 to Italian parents who moved the family to Milan when Actuis was still a baby. He became especially devoted to the Eucharist and has gained popularity as the <a href="https://aleteia.org/2021/10/12/bl-carlo-acutis-his-life-his-miracles-and-his-legacy"><mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color">"computer geek" saint</mark></a>. He died in 2006 of leukemia. <br><br><em>Photo: Carlo Actuis; screenshot from www.carloacutis.com.</em>
The Pope has announced that fourteen Blesseds will be canonised on 20 October this year.
While Blessed Carlo Acutis' canonisation was also given official approval during the consistory held 1 July, Pope Francis said his canonisation will be held "at a date to be determined”, <a href="https://aleteia.org/2024/07/01/carlos-canonization-date-still-on-hold"><mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color">reports</mark></a> <em>Aleteia</em>.
Anticipation about when Acutis could become a saint has been growing since 23 May this year, when the Vatican's Dicastery for Saints' Causes announced that another miracle had been attributed to the intercession of Acutis.<br><br>Blessed Carlo Acutis will be the first so-called millennial to be made a saint, <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-07/consistory-cardinals-carlo-acutis-martyrs-canonization.html"><mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color">notes</mark></a> <em>Vatican New</em>s.
During the “ordinary” public consistory that took place in the Vatican Consistory Hall, it was announced that those to be canonised on 20 October are as follows:
Another factor driving speculation about Acutis’ date is that Pope Francis <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/pope-lets-slip-that-blessed-pier-giorgio-frassati-will-be-a-saint-soon/"><mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color">recently let slip</mark></a> that Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will “be a saint soon”.
This has led some Vatican commentators to contend that the two young Italians – Acutis died aged 15, while Pier Giorgio Frassati was 24 – might be canonised together as "companion saints" in the midst of the <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/pilgrimage-emphasised-by-vatican-as-opportunity-for-indulgences-during-jubilee-2025/"><mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color">celebrations accompanying Jubilee 2025</mark></a>. Both have garnered huge followings, especially among younger Catholics.
<a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/pier-giorgio-frassati-closer-to-canonisation-cardinal-says/?swcfpc=1"><mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color">Pier Giorgio Frassati </mark></a>was born in the Piedmont region of Italy on 6 April 1901. He devoted his life to serving the poor, before dying of polio in 1925.
Carlo Actuis was born in London on 3 May 1991 to Italian parents who moved the family to Milan when Actuis was still a baby. He became especially devoted to the Eucharist and has gained popularity as the <a href="https://aleteia.org/2021/10/12/bl-carlo-acutis-his-life-his-miracles-and-his-legacy"><mark style="background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" class="has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color">"computer geek" saint</mark></a>. He died in 2006 of leukemia. <br><br><em>Photo: Carlo Actuis; screenshot from www.carloacutis.com.</em>
