This morning, at 9.00 am (Rome Time), in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father Leo XIV presided over the celebration of Terce and the Ordinary Public Consistory for the Canonization of the Blesseds. Blessed Carlos Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frasatti to be canonized September 7.
Blesseds Carlos Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frasatti to be canonized
– Ignatius Choukrallah Maloyan, Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Mardin, martyr;
– Peter To Rot, layperson and catechist, martyr;
– Vincenza Maria Poloni, founder of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Verona;
– María del Monte Carmelo Rendiles Martínez, founder of the Congregation of the Servants of Jesus;
– Maria Troncatti, professed religious sister of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians;
– José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, lay faithful;
– Pier Giorgio Frassati, lay faithful of the Third Order of Saint Dominic;
– Bartolo Longo, lay faithful.
During the Consistory, the Pope decreed that Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, together with Blessed Carlo Acutis, be inscribed in the Book of Saints on Sunday 7 September 2025, while Blesseds Ignatius Choukrallah Maloyan, Peter To Rot, Vincenza Maria Poloni, María del Monte Carmelo Rendiles Martínez, Maria Troncatti, José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros and Bartolo Longo be inscribed in the Book of Saints on Sunday 19 October 2025.
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