{"id":50288,"date":"2025-09-07T21:27:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/pope-leo-xiv-canonizes-first-two-saints-of-his-pontificate"},"modified":"2025-09-07T22:04:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:04:39","slug":"pope-leo-xiv-canonizes-first-two-saints-of-his-pontificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/pope-leo-xiv-canonizes-first-two-saints-of-his-pontificate","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV canonizes first two saints of his pontificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span><b>Pope Leo XIV declared a 15-year-old computer whiz the Catholic Church\u2019s first millennial saint Sunday, giving the next generation of Catholics a relatable role model who used technology to spread the faith and earn the nickname \u201cGod\u2019s influencer.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Leo canonized Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006, during an open-air Mass in St. Peter\u2019s Square that was attended by tens of thousands of people, many of them millennials and couples with young children.<\/p>\n<p>During the first saint-making Mass of his pontificate, Leo also canonized another popular Italian figure who died young, Pier Giorgio Frassati.<\/p>\n<p>Leo said both men created \u201cmasterpieces\u201d out of their lives by dedicating them to God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe greatest risk in life is to waste it outside of God\u2019s plan,\u201d he said in his homily. The new saints \u201care an invitation to all of us, especially young people, not to squander our lives, but to direct them upwards and make them masterpieces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican said 36 cardinals, 270 bishops and hundreds of priests had signed up to celebrate the Mass along with Leo in a sign of the saints\u2019 enormous appeal to the hierarchy and ordinary faithful alike.<\/p>\n<p>Both ceremonies had been scheduled for earlier this year, but were postponed following Pope Francis\u2019 death in April.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Eritrea<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. Pope Leo XIV declared a 15-year-old computer whiz the Catholic Church\u2019s first millennial saint Sunday, giving the next generation of Catholics a relatable role model who used technology to spread the faith and earn the nickname \u201cGod\u2019s influencer.\u201d Leo canonized Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006, during an open-air Mass in St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":50287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[1112,233,6890,6434],"class_list":["post-50288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-culture-and-art","tag-catholic-church","tag-eritrea","tag-pope-leo-xiv","tag-vatican-city"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pope Leo XIV canonizes first two saints of his pontificate - 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