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Miami Herald
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Vatican sets canonization date for Italian computer gamer Carlo Acutis
June 13 (UPI) -- An Italian teenager dubbed "God's Influencer" is to become the first saint from the millennial generation Sept. 7, after Pope Leo XIV announced the date of his canonization in the Vatican on Friday. British-born Carlo Acutis, a keen computer gamer who died of leukemia in 2006 at age 15, will be declared a saint by Leo in a St. Peter's Square ceremony, after the Holy See verified two miracles attributed to him and in recognition of his use of Internet technology to spread the Catholic faith. Approved back in July under the previous pontificate of the late Pope Francis, Acutis will be canonized along with another candidate recognized by Francis, Pier Giorgio Frassati, who died in 1924 at age 24. "This morning, Pope Leo XIV presided over the Ordinary Public Consistory for the Canonization of the Blesseds, announcing that these Italian young men will be inscribed in the Register of Saints on the first Sunday of the month [of September]," the Vatican said in a social media post. Acutis, a typical jeans and sneakers-wearing teen who has emerged as a poster boy for the church and helped to attract a new generation of younger adherents, was beatified in 2020 after a Brazilian boy unable to eat normally due to a birth defect was allegedly cured after his mother prayed to Acutis. The second miracle in May 2024 involved a Costa Rican student with a severe, life-threatening head trauma from a cycling accident in Florence, which resolved after her mother prayed to Acutis at his tomb in Assisi, the birthplace of St. Francis. The Pontiff's Office for Liturgical Celebrations also named seven other candidates, who are to be be canonized on the third Sunday of October. Copyright 2025 UPI News Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Vatican sets canonization date for Italian computer gamer Carlo Acutis
June 13 (UPI) -- An Italian teenager dubbed "God's Influencer" is to become the first saint from the millennial generation Sept. 7, after Pope Leo XIV announced the date of his canonization in the Vatican on Friday. British-born Carlo Acutis, a keen computer gamer who died of leukemia in 2006 at age 15, will be declared a saint by Leo in a St. Peter's Square ceremony, after the Holy See verified two miracles attributed to him and in recognition of his use of Internet technology to spread the Catholic faith. Approved back in July under the previous pontificate of the late Pope Francis, Acutis will be canonized along with another candidate recognized by Francis, Pier Giorgio Frassati, who died in 1924 at age 24. "This morning, Pope Leo XIV presided over the Ordinary Public Consistory for the Canonization of the Blesseds, announcing that these Italian young men will be inscribed in the Register of Saints on the first Sunday of the month [of September]," the Vatican said in a social media post. Acutis, a typical jeans and sneakers-wearing teen who has emerged as a poster boy for the church and helped to attract a new generation of younger adherents, was beatified in 2020 after a Brazilian boy unable to eat normally due to a birth defect was allegedly cured after his mother prayed to Acutis. The second miracle in May 2024 involved a Costa Rican student with a severe, life-threatening head trauma from a cycling accident in Florence, which resolved after her mother prayed to Acutis at his tomb in Assisi, the birthplace of St. Francis. The Pontiff's Office for Liturgical Celebrations also named seven other candidates, who are to be be canonized on the third Sunday of October.
GMA Network
13-06-2025
- General
- GMA Network
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
