Carlo Acutis, a London-born teenager known as “God’s influencer” for his online promotion of Catholic teachings, is set to become a saint.
He will be the first millennial, born between the early 1980s and late 1990s, to be canonized.
Pope Francis attributed a second miracle to Acutis, involving the healing of a university student in Florence who had brain bleeding from head trauma.
Acutis was beatified in 2020 after his first miracle, the healing of a Brazilian child with a congenital pancreatic disease, was recognized, the BBC reported.
The second miracle was confirmed after a meeting with the Vatican’s saint-making department, though the date for his canonization is yet to be announced.
Acutis died in 2006 at age 15 from leukemia in Monza, Italy, and his body was moved to Assisi a year later, where it is displayed alongside other relics.
Written by B.C. Begley
