Chicago just got a little holier.

And no one is more excited than the folks at Blessed Carlo Acutis Parish — now St. Carlo Acutis Parish, the only parish in North America named for the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint .

On Sunday it hosted a celebration in honor of Acutis’ canonization, part of festivities that will last until the anniversary of his death Oct. 12.

An all-woman mariachi group, Mariachi Sirenas, performed on the steps at St. Hedwig Church in Bucktown, part of St. Acutis Parish, as several hundred people filed into Mass on Sunday morning. A portrait of Acutis and a soccer ball were carried by the Mass procession moving down the aisles. Parishioners wore soccer jerseys along with their Sunday best amid a sea of gold and blue ribbons waving in the air.

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