Pope Francis is set to canonize Italian millennial Carlo Acutis in April 2025. On Wednesday, November 20, the Pope said Acutis will be made a saint during the weekend of April 25 to 27.
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00:00Pope Francis is set to canonize Italian millennial Carlo Acutis in April 2025.
00:07On Wednesday, November 20, the Pope said Acutis will be made saint during the weekend of April
00:1225 to 27.
00:14That weekend, the Vatican is celebrating a jubilee for adolescents as part of the Catholic
00:18Holy Year in Rome, which opens at the end of December.
00:21Dubbed as God's influencer, Acutis used to take care of his parish's website and a Vatican-based
00:27academy.
00:28He died of leukemia in 2006 at age 15.
00:32The Pope also says he would canonize Pier Giorgio Frassati during the weekend of July
00:3628 to August 3.
00:38Frassati was a young Italian man who was known for helping those in need and died of polio
00:43in the 1920s.