More than half a million pilgrims have visited St. Carlo Acutis’ tomb so far this year

More than 620,000 people have visited the tomb of St. Carlo Acutis in the first eight months of 2025, according to the Diocese of Assisi, Italy.

The diocese reported a surge of more than 121,000 visitors in August alone, a figure boosted by the Jubilee of Youth and Acutis’ canonization by Pope Leo XIV on Sept. 7 in St. Peter’s Square.

Acutis, who died of leukemia in 2006 at age 15, is entombed in the Church of St. Mary Major in Assisi, where pilgrims can venerate his relics and view his body dressed in jeans, a track jacket, and Nike sneakers.

On the day of his canonization, locals packed into the church in Assisi to watch a livestream of the Mass, while a special train organized by the diocese carried more than 800 pilgrims from Umbria to Rome to join the tens of thousands of people gathered in St. Peter’s Square.

At the canonization Mass, Acutis’ brother Michele read a Scripture passage in English, and Valeria Vargas Valverde — the Costa Rican woman healed in a miracle attributed to his intercession in 2022 — read one of the prayers of the faithful.

The following day Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi offered a Mass of Thanksgiving at Carlo’s tomb in Assisi attended by the saint’s parents, Antonia and Andrea, and hundreds of pilgrims.

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