Pope Leo XIV proclaimed the first two saints of his papacy in a historic ceremony at St. Peter’s Square in Rome on Sunday, including the first of the millennial generation.

Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati, two Italian laymen born nearly a century apart, joined the ranks of Mother Theresa and Francis of Assisi as saints of the Roman Catholic Church at 10 a.m. local time at the public ceremony, which was attended by thousands of devotees.

Acutis’ mother, Antonia Salzano, and his brother and sister were in St. Peter’s Square when Leo XIV canonized her son alongside Frassati. 8

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“After due deliberation and frequent prayer for divine assistance and having sought the counsel of many of our brother bishops, we declare and define blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo A

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