Tuesday, April 22, 2025 - The canonization of a British Italian teenager as the first millennial saint has been postponed due to the Pope’s d3ath.
Carlo Acutis, who d!ed of acute leukemia in 2006 when he was
15, created a website cataloguing more than 100 eucharistic miracles recognised
by the Catholic church.
The young web designer started the site in 2004 and worked
on it for two and a half years.
It was unveiled just days before he passed away.
Each miracle on the site was translated into twenty
languages and accompanied with images, maps and video.
Around ten years ago a group of priests and friends of Carlo
started an initiative to have Carlo sainted.
He was named "venerable' in 2018 after the church recognised his virtuous life, and his body was taken to a shrine in Assisi’s Santuario della Spogliazione.
He was then declared "blessed" in 2020 after the
Vatican dicastery, which studies sainthood processes, found the
"scientifically inexplainable" recovery of a sick child in Brazil was
down to the youngster touching one of Carlo’s t-shirts.
Last year, the church attributed a second miracle to him –
the complete recovery of a Costa Rican student in Italy from major head trauma
in a bicycle accident after her mother prayed at Carlo’s tomb.
This
paved the way to his canonisation, which was supposed to happen next Sunday,
April 27, but will now be postponed.
Carlo was born on May 3, 1991, in London to a wealthy Italian
family, and grew up in Milan.
While he enjoyed regular pastimes for someone his age, including video
games, time with his friends and hiking, he also taught catechism in a local
parish and did outreach to the homeless.
His preserved body is currently on display to the public at a
church in Assisi.
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