Catholic Church | A boy who died at the age of 15 is becoming the first millennial saint

at the age of 15 of the dead From Carlo Acutis is becoming the first millennial to be canonized by the Catholic Church. The news agency AFP and the US media report on the matter, among others CNN.

Acutis, who died of leukemia in 2006, performed his first recognized miracle in 2013, according to the Vatican, when he cured a Brazilian boy with a rare birth defect in his pancreas.

Encyclopedia Britannica by the Brazilian boy had prayed for the intervention of Acutis and received this relic as a gift. The Brazilian boy is said to have recovered, and in 2020 the Pope Francis beatified Acutis.

The boy’s remains were transferred to the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in the city of Assisi.

In Catholicism candidates for sainthood usually have to perform two miracles before being declared a saint.

Acutis performed his second miracle in July 2022. A Florentine girl had fallen off her bike, hurt her head badly and had to undergo surgery. The Vatican by his chances of survival were slim.

Six days after the fall, the girl’s mother had traveled to Acutis’ grave, prayed and left him a letter. The Vatican claims that the girl had started breathing on her own that same day.

Ten days later, the girl’s brain bleeding had stopped, and in September she herself was able to travel to Acutis’ grave to thank for this intervention.

On Thursday, Pope Francis acknowledged the miracle and announced that he would convene a cardinal consistor, the plenary session of cardinals, where the canonization of Acutis will be considered along with the consideration of three other candidates for sainthood.

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, Acutis will be canonized in 2025.

in London born and raised in Italy, Acutis became known before his death for spreading the faith on the Internet. For example, he created a website where miracles were collected.

According to AFP, the self-taught coder has been called “God’s influencer”, according to CNN, also “the patron saint of the Internet”.

The Vatican says that Acutis, among other things, helped the poor in his hometown of Milan. His funeral was attended by many poor residents of the city, whom he managed to help during his life.

The Pope was also impressed by Acutis’s ideas. In 2019, Franciscus quoted in a message aimed at young people in his exhortation Acutia:

“Carlo said that ‘everyone is born as an original, but many die as a photocopy’. Don’t let that happen to you!”