And on October 19, the Holy See will canonize seven other “Blessed”, lay and religious, including José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros (1864-1919), Venezuelan doctor member of the secular Franciscan order, known as “The doctor of the poor.”
Acutis canonization, who died of leukemia in 2006 at age 15, should be carried out on April 27, but had to be postponed due to the death of Pope Francis.
Acutis was very talented in computer science and created a digital exposure about Eucharistic miracles, which earned him the nickname of “influencer of God” or “cyber and.
Although his family was little practitioner, he showed a lot of religious fervor since an early age.
He was beatified in 2020 and the Vatican attributes two miracles that qualify him to be canonized: the healing of a Brazilian child with a rare malformation of the pancreas and that of a severely injured Costa Rican student in an accident. In both cases, their families had invoked the adolescent to intercede.
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Together with Acutis, the lay student Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901-1925), famous for his social commitment and passion for mountaineering will be canonized.