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When saints compete for feast days

"Just because someone is canonized doesn’t mean that they’re going to end up in the General Roman Calendar, necessarily."

Michelle La Rosa
Oct 11, 2025
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October 12 marks the feast day of St. Carlo Acutis, his first feast day since being canonized earlier this year — though his feast will not be observed at Mass this year because it falls on a Sunday.

That date was chosen, as is typically the case with saints’ feast days, because it was the day Carlo died.

But what happens to the saints who already had an …

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