Catholics celebrate sainthood of Carlo Acutis, Pier Giorgio Frassati
Catholics in Southern California to celebrate sainthood of Carlo Acutis, Pier Giorgio Frassati
This weekend, the Catholic Church will get two new Italian saints, including the church’s first millennial saint.
“Blesseds” Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati — who are both beatified, the first step toward sainthood — will be canonized in the Vatican on Sunday, Sept. 7, the first such ceremony by Pope Leo XIV.
“The Holy Father will raise to the altars two 20th-century men whose lives were brief, but whose love for Jesus burned so brightly that they blazed a trail of holiness that continues to invite young people and indeed, all of us, to follow in their footsteps,” Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez said in his bi-weekly column in Angelus.