The Pope declared an Italian teenager a saint
Italian teenager Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia in 2006 at the age of 15, became the first Catholic saint from the millennial generation (people born between 1981 and 1996), reports Radio Free Europe. He was canonized by Pope Leo XIV during a solemn ceremony at the Vatican, attended by about 70,000 young Catholics from around the world.
Carlo Acutis was born in Great Britain. During his life, he became known as the "God's influencer" – he created websites for his school parish and developed an online portal about Christian miracles.
In Catholic tradition, canonization requires the recognition of at least two miracles performed by the candidate for sainthood.
The first case related to the teenager occurred in Brazil in 2013, where after prayer to Acutis, a child with a rare pancreatic disease was healed. The second took place in Italy in 2022. A 21-year-old resident of Costa Rica suffered severe traumatic brain injury after falling from a bicycle, but after her mother's prayer at Acutis's grave, her condition sharply improved. That same day, she began breathing without a ventilator, and ten days later, she was discharged from the hospital with no signs of injury.
The body of the saint, dressed in jeans, sneakers, and a sports jacket, rests in a glass sarcophagus at the Santa Maria Maggiore church in Assisi.
