At the end of the Canonization Mass of Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis, Pope Leo XIV guided the Angelus prayer before tens of thousands of faithful gathered in the Plaza de San Pedro.
The Pontiff recalled that, in addition to the new saints, the Church has been enriched with two new blessed. In Tallin, capital of Estonia, the Jesuit archbishop Eduardo Profittlich, killed in 1942 during the Soviet persecution against the Church, was beatified.
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And in Veszprém, Hungary, was beatified María Magdalena Bodi, a young secular murdered in 1945 for resisting soldiers trying to abuse her. “Let’s praise the Lord for these two martyrs, brave witnesses of the beauty of the Gospel!” He exclaimed.
Next, Pope Leo XIV entrusted to the intercession of the Saints and the Virgin Mary the Paz Supplica, “especially in the Holy Land and in Ukraine, and in every land bloody by war.”
“I repeat the rulers: listen to the voice of consciousness! The apparent victories achieved with weapons, sowing death and destruction, are actually defeats and never bring peace or security,” he warned.
Finally, Leo XIV reaffirmed strongly: “God does not want war, he wants peace, and holds those who commit to leave the spiral of hatred and go through the path of dialogue!”
Almudena Martínez-Bordiú
Graduated in journalism and advertising from the CEU San Pablo University of Madrid. Specialized in religious information in Spain since 2015. It has been a senior correspondent for ACI Press and Ewtn News at the Vatican for two years and is currently a correspondent for Europe based on Spain.