The canonization dates of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati announced by the Pope. After the General Audience on Wednesday, the Holy Father announced that Carlo Acutis will be proclaimed a saint during the Jubilee of Adolescents, which will take place in Rome from 25 to 27 April 2025. In a subsequent statement, the Archbishop of the Diocese of Assisi, Mgr. Domenico Sorrentino, specified that the canonization of Acutis is scheduled for Sunday 27 April at 10.30 am in St. Peter’s Square.
He also announced that Pier Giorgio Frassati will be raised to the altars during the Jubilee of Youth, between July 28 and August 3 of next year.
The date of Carlo Acutis’ canonization has been eagerly awaited since Pope Francis approved the miracle attributed to his intercession on 23 May: Valeria Valverde, a 21-year-old girl from Costa Rica, miraculously survived a serious bicycle accident that left her on the brink of death with a very serious head injury.
Known by many as the “influencer of God,” whose life and love for the Church and the Eucharist crossed borders, he will be raised to the altars on one of the days when teenagers from all over the world make a pilgrimage to Rome as part of the Jubilee Year.
Carlo Acutis has inspired young people around the world with his deep commitment to faith and his ability to bring the message of Christ to new generations through the Internet.
The future saint of “jeans and sneakers” died of leukaemia on 12 October 2006, and, according to his wishes because of his love for St. Francis, was buried in Assisi. He was declared Venerable in 2018 and Blessed on 10 October 2020.
Young people from all over the world, who will gather in Rome next July, will also be able to witness the canonization of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, a young Italian known by many as the “patron saint of mountaineers.”
Frassati, who died at the age of 24 in 1925, is beloved by many young Catholics today for his enthusiastic witness to holiness that reaches “to the heights.”
The young man from the northern Italian city of Turin was an avid mountaineer and a third-order Dominican known for his charitable works. He was declared blessed by St. John Paul II in 1990.
The miracle attributed to his intercession and for which he will be elevated to the altars has as its protagonist Kevin Becker, a student from the United States who was miraculously healed from a fatal head injury.