Vatican declared the first “millennial” saint

Pope Leo XIV, at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, declared Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old who died of leukemia in 2006, as a saint, Vatican News reports.

According to Associated Press, Acutis became the first millennial saint canonized by the Catholic Church. He was interested in programming, earned the nickname “holy influencer” due to his active online preaching, and maintained a website dedicated to miracles.

The Church recognized two miracles attributed to Carlo Acutis. One was the healing of a boy from Brazil on Acutis’s memorial day, and the other was the miraculous recovery of a woman from Costa Rica after a severe injury, following her visit to the place where Acutis was buried.

Charos Zarqarayeva

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