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The Catholic Church’s first millennial-era saint Carlo Acutis will be canonized Sept. 7. That's according to Pope Leo XIV who made the announcement during a meeting of cardinals on Friday.

People pray in front of the body of Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia and beatified in 2020, in the Santa Maria Maggiore church in Assisi, Italy (AP) ...

The work, which resides in the church's Contarelli Chapel, is an oil painting completed by the Milanese-born artist in 1600. And it has been on view in the chapel ever since.

St Francis of Assisi was born in 1181 in Assisi, Italy, ... He died on October 3, 1226, at the age of approximately 44, in a hut near the church of the Portiuncula in Assisi.

He was named ‘venerable’ in 2018 after the church recognised his virtuous life, and his body was taken to a shrine in Assisi’s Santuario della Spogliazione.

Pilgrims flock to pray before Carlo’s body in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, the Sanctuary of the Spoliation, where it has been on public display in a glass tomb since 2022.

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Pilgrims flock to pray before Carlo's body in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, the Sanctuary of the Spoliation, where it has been on public display in a glass tomb since 2022.