For a week now, thousands of people have passed through the Real Parroquia de San Ginés, located on the Madrid street of Arenal, just a few meters from Puerta del Sol, to venerate the relics of San Carlo Acutis (ex-capellis) and of San Pier Giorgio Frassati (ex-indumentis), who were canonized last Sunday by Pope Leo XIV, in St. Peter’s Square in Rome.
It is worth highlighting the silence, recollection, and devotion of all the devotees who have passed through San Ginés these days, mostly young people, but also entire families, priests, and nuns.
The relic of San Carlo Acutis was expressly sent by Doña Antonia Salzano, mother of the new saint, so that prayers could be offered in the center of Madrid asking for his prompt canonization.
During the last two years, it was venerated every Thursday in the Oratorio del Santo Niño del Remedio, a temple dependent on San Ginés.
From now on, the relic of San Carlo Acutis will be permanently displayed in a chapel of the parish temple and every first Saturday of the month, after the 8:00 p.m. Mass, it will be given for public veneration.
The Mass of Thanksgiving next Saturday, September 20, at 8:00 p.m., will be presided over by Fr. Ángel López Blanco, Episcopal Vicar of Vicaria III, and the Coro Matritum Cantat will participate under the direction of Fr. Javier Blanco and Fr. Felipe López at the organ.
Young people from the Archdiocese of Madrid, Catholic movements, and lay associations are invited to this solemn Eucharist. At the end, the relics of the two new saints can be personally venerated.
