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Blessed Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first “millennial saint” at a ceremony in the Vatican on 7 September, Pope Leo XIV confirmed on Friday.<\/p>\n
The news comes after Acutis’ canonisation ceremony, orginally scheduled on 27 April, was postponed due to the\u00a0death of Pope Francis.<\/p>\n
The Vatican\u00a0said\u00a0that Acutis will be canonised alongside Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901-25), an Italian Catholic activist who was beatified in 1990 by Pope John Paul II.<\/p>\n
Acutis, who died at the age of 15, is known as “God’s influencer” for creating a website dedicated to Eucharistic miracles and for using his computer skills to spread the faith.<\/p>\n
Born in London on 3 May 1991, Acutis grew up in the northern Italian city of Milan. He died in hospital, of leukemia, in nearby Monza on 12 October 2006.<\/p>\n
In keeping with his dying wish, his body was transferred to the central Italian hilltop town of Assisi, reflecting his great devotion to St Francis.<\/p>\n
Over the past year more than one million pilgrims have flocked to Assisi to venerate Acutis whose body – clad in jeans, a sweatshirt and sneakers – is displayed behind protective glass in the Sanctuary of the Renunciation, part of the Church of St Mary Major.<\/p>\n
Acutis was beatified by Pope Francis on 10 October 2020 after a miracle was attributed to him when a Brazilian child diagnosed with a congenital disease was cured after his mother prayed for the intercession of the Italian teenager.<\/p>\n
The beatification made Acutis the Catholic Church’s first “blessed” millennial – referring to a person born in the early 1980s to late 1990s.<\/p>\n
A second miracle attributed to Acutis came in 2024, paving the way for his canonisation, when a 21-year-old university student from Costa Rica recovered after incurring a severe head injury in a bicycle accident while she was studying in Florence in 2022.<\/p>\n
Despite her critical condition, the woman made a full recovery after her mother made a pilgrimage to Assisi and sought the intercession of Acutis.<\/p>\n
Italian prosecutors recently opened an investigation into the illegal online sale of alleged relics of Blessed Carlo Acutis after the bishop of Assisi filed a formal complaint.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Mass and canonisation of Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati will\u00a0be held in St Peter’s Square as part of the Vatican’s Jubilee Year\u00a0calendar of events.<\/p>\n
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