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Carlo Acutis was canonized on September 7, 2025, by Pope Leo XIV in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, in the same ceremony as Pier Giorgio Frassati. The canonization had first been scheduled for April 27, 2025, during the Jubilee of Teenagers, and was postponed after the death of Pope Francis on April 21, 2025. He is the first saint born in the 1990s.
Key dates: born in London on May 3, 1991; died of leukemia in Monza on October 12, 2006, at age 15; declared Venerable in 2018; beatified in Assisi on October 10, 2020; canonized September 7, 2025. His feast day is October 12.
His tomb is in the Santuario della Spogliazione in Assisi, where his body is displayed in a glass-fronted case and can be visited daily without charge. Visits pause during the 11:00 a.m. Sunday Mass, so check the shrine's current schedule.
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