two new saints canonized
St. Pier Giorgio Frassati
St. Carlo Acutis
Last Sunday, Sept. 7, Pope Leo canonized two young men as the newest saints of the Church.
Pier Giorgio Frassati died 100 years ago at the age of 24 of polio. He had become a Third Order Dominican and lived a deeply religious life, dedicated to attending Mass daily and frequent Eucharistic Adoration. He also was committed to serving the poor, giving away almost all his own money to the needy and working to bring necessary foods and clothing them. When he died in 1925, his fame as a truly holy young man had spread so far that thousands gathered at his funeral to honor him.
Carlo Acutis was born in 1991 and died of leukemia in 2006, at the age of 15. In his short life he, too, had developed a deep commitment to Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, daily participating in Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration. Carlo was very tech savvy and had developed a website for his parish. Another priest asked him to develop a website for the school. On his own, he developed a site cataloging all the Eucharistic miracles in the history of the Church and maintaining a list of all the Marian apparitions. Carlo was the first person living in the new millennium to be canonized a saint.
Pope Leo XIV gave a beautiful homily reflecting on these two young men as he canonized them as saints. You can find it on YouTube, with English commentary.
Pier Giorgio Frassati died 100 years ago at the age of 24 of polio. He had become a Third Order Dominican and lived a deeply religious life, dedicated to attending Mass daily and frequent Eucharistic Adoration. He also was committed to serving the poor, giving away almost all his own money to the needy and working to bring necessary foods and clothing them. When he died in 1925, his fame as a truly holy young man had spread so far that thousands gathered at his funeral to honor him.
Carlo Acutis was born in 1991 and died of leukemia in 2006, at the age of 15. In his short life he, too, had developed a deep commitment to Christ in the Blessed Sacrament, daily participating in Mass and in Eucharistic Adoration. Carlo was very tech savvy and had developed a website for his parish. Another priest asked him to develop a website for the school. On his own, he developed a site cataloging all the Eucharistic miracles in the history of the Church and maintaining a list of all the Marian apparitions. Carlo was the first person living in the new millennium to be canonized a saint.
Pope Leo XIV gave a beautiful homily reflecting on these two young men as he canonized them as saints. You can find it on YouTube, with English commentary.