BREAKING Pope Leo XIV's 1st Public Consistory of Cardinals Approving Sainthood for 9 Blesseds Including Carlo Acutis Canonization Date

Pope Leo XIV held the first Ordinary Public Consistory of his pontificate on Friday, June 13, 2025, in the morning, with Cardinals giving their formal approval for the canonizations of nine Blesseds.
Pope Leo XIV presides at an Ordinary Public Consistory for the Vote on Causes for Canonization, which gave formal approval for the canonizations of eight Blesseds, and set the date for their canonizations.
The Holy Father announced that Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati and Blessed Carlo Acutis will be canonized together on 7 September.

The late Pope Francis had announced the canonizations of Blesseds Pier Giorgio and Carlo at the General Audience of 20 November 2024, the canonization of Acutis, who was beatified in Assisi on 10 October 2020, had originally been scheduled for 27 April, the Second Sunday of Easter, to coincide with the Jubilee of Teenagers, while Frassati’s canonization had been set for 3 August,  at the end of the Jubilee for Youth.

The postponement of Blessed Carlo’s canonization was announced on the day of Pope Francis’ death, 21 April.

At Friday’s consistory, Pope Leo also set the date for the canonization of seven other Blesseds, including martyred Armenian Catholic Archbishop Ignatius Shoukrallah Maloyan, who died in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire; and Peter To Rot, a lay catechist who was martyred in 1945 for continuing his apostolate despite the ban imposed by the Japanese. Blessed Peter will be the first canonized saint from Papua New Guinea.

Three female religious are also among those who will be canonized in October: Vincenza Maria Poloni, founder of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Verona; Maria del Monte Carmelo Rendiles (née Carmen Elena Rendiles Martínez), from Venezuela, founder of the Congregation of the Servants of Jesus; and Maria Troncatti, a professed religious of the Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians.

In addition, two other laymen will be among those enrolled in the catalogue of the saints: Bartolo Longo, founder of the famous Marian Shrine at Pompeii, and José Gregorio Hernández Cisneros, a Venezuelan doctor and member of the Secular Franciscan Order, known as “the doctor of the poor” because he treated those in need and even paid for their medicines.
Source: Vatican News