A London-born teenager will become the Catholic Church's first millenial saint, after his cause for canonisation was approved by church authorities.
Carlo Acutis, who died from leukemia in 2006 at the age of 15, was renowned for using his computing skills to spread awareness of the Catholic faith and earned the nickname “God’s influencer”.
Being recognised as a saint in the Catholic Church can take decades, but the cause of Acutis has moved swiftly, with the teenager developing a devoted following across the world.
His story has been seen to better connect the Catholic Church with younger generations in a digital age.
The church's sainthood process usually requires two miracles attributed to the candidate.
Acutis was beatified and declared “blessed” in 2020 after his first miracle, when he reportedly healed a Brazilian boy who touched one of Acutis' T-shirts, before making a miraculous recovery from a rare pancreatic disorder.
The Pope later verified Acutis was the source of this miracle.
The second miracle attributed to Acutis relates to the reported healing of a girl from Costa Rica who had suffered a head trauma after falling from her bicycle in Florence, Italy, where she was studying.
Her mother said she prayed for her daughter’s recovery at the tomb of Acutis in Assisi.
>he reportedly healed a Brazilian boy who touched one of Acutis' T-shirts
>she prayed for her daughter’s recovery at the tomb of Acutis in Assisi.
This story strikes me as a bit odd.
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