This weekend, the Catholic Church will get two new Italian saints, including the church’s first millennial saint.

“Blesseds” Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati — who are both beatified, the first step toward sainthood — will be canonized in the Vatican on Sunday, Sept. 7 , the first such ceremony by Pope Leo XIV.

“The Holy Father will raise to the altars two 20th-century men whose lives were brief, but whose love for Jesus burned so brightly that they blazed a trail of holiness that continues to invite young people and indeed, all of us, to follow in their footsteps,” Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez said in his bi-weekly column in Angelus.

Both future saints are especially recognized among Catholic youth and young adults.

Acutis was born to Italian parents May 3, 1991,

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