Pope Leo XIV makes the history canonizing the first millennium Saint Carlo Acutis

Pope Leo XIV proclaimed a 15 -year -old computer genius the first holy millennium of the Catholic Church, as well as another popular Italian figure which spent his life spreading his faith before dying at a young age.

Leo canonized Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia in 2006, and an Italian and outdoor passionate student Pier Giorgio Frassati, who died at the beginning of the twenty polio in 1925, during an outdoor mass in Saint-Pierre before around 80,000 people.

Leo said the two saints created “masterpieces” out of their lives by consecrating them to God.

“The greatest risk of life is to waste it outside the plan of God,” said Leo in his Sunday homeland. The new saints “are an invitation to all of us, especially young people, not to waste our lives, but to direct them up and make them masterpieces”.

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Pope Leo XIV arrives for the canonization mass of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati on Saint-Pierre square at the Vatican on Sunday September 7, 2025. (AP photo / Andrew Medichini)

Acutis was born on May 3, 1991 and obtained the nickname of “the influencer of God” after having created a multilingual website documenting so -study miracles recognized by the church. The teenager finished the site at a time when such projects were generally in the field of professionals.

The pilgrims arrive for the mass of canonization of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati on the Place Saint-Pierre at the Vatican on Sunday September 7, 2025. (AP photo / Andrew Medichini)

In October 2006, Acutis fell ill and received a diagnosis of acute leukemia. He died in a few days at only 15 years. He was buried on a seat.

Pope Francis fervently made the Acutis Saint -Saine affair – convinced that the church needed someone like him to attract young Catholics to faith while responding to the promises and dangers of the digital age.

A view of the mass of canonization celebrated by Pope Leo XIV of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati on Saint-Pierre square at the Vatican on Sunday September 7, 2025. (AP photo / Andrew Medichini)

Leo inherited the acute cause, but he too highlighted technology – in particular artificial intelligence – as one of the main challenges that humanity is confronted.

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Frassati, the other canonized saint, was a “flagship for secular spirituality”, said Leo.

Frassati lived his faith through “a constant, humble and mainly hidden service to the poorest of Turin”, noted the Catholic Academy Frassati. “He simply lived and gave food, money or everything that someone asked him.”

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It is believed that he contracted the polio of those to whom he minister in the slums of Turin, Italy, before his death.

Ashley J. Dimella de Fox News Digital and the Associated Press contributed to this report.