{"id":2604,"date":"2025-09-06T22:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/06\/gods-influencer-carlo-acutis-to-become-first-millennial-saint\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T22:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T22:37:12","slug":"gods-influencer-carlo-acutis-to-become-first-millennial-saint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/06\/gods-influencer-carlo-acutis-to-become-first-millennial-saint\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018God\u2019s influencer\u2019 Carlo Acutis to become first millennial saint"},"content":{"rendered":"<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/5\/24\/gods-influencer-pope-recognises-carlo-acutis-as-first-millennial-saint\">Italian teenager<\/a> called \u201cGod\u2019s Influencer\u201d is to become the first millennial Catholic saint at a ceremony led by Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of worshippers are expected to attend Sunday\u2019s canonisation in St Peter\u2019s Square of Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia in 2006 at the age of 15.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/5\/25\/pope-leo-prays-for-chinas-catholics-a-thorny-issue-in-his-papacy\">Pope Leo prays for China\u2019s Catholics, a thorny issue in his papacy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/5\/18\/pope-leo-xiv-meets-ukraines-zelenskyy-after-his-inaugural-mass\">Pope Leo XIV meets Ukraine\u2019s Zelenskyy after his inaugural Mass<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/5\/12\/pope-leo-calls-for-release-of-jailed-journalists-notes-their-courage\">Pope Leo calls for release of jailed journalists, notes their courage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Born in London, England, in 1991 to Italian parents, Carlo grew up in the northern Italian city of Milan, where he taught himself basic coding and used his computing talents to document miracles and other elements of the Catholic faith online.<\/p>\n<p>The story of the cyber-apostle, who is said to have attended Mass daily and shown kindness to bullied children and homeless people, attracted Catholic youth worldwide, and it will now see him elevated to the same level as Francis of Assisi.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed in jeans and a pair of Nike trainers, the teenager\u2019s body lies in a glass-walled tomb in Assisi, a medieval city and pilgrimage site in the central region of Umbria, and is visited by hundreds of thousands of people every year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3929512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3929512\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AFP__20250406__39643NV__v3__HighRes__ItalyReligionSaintCanonizationAcutis-1757174587.jpg?w=770&#038;resize=770%2C487&#038;quality=80\" alt=\"Tomb of Carlo Acutis\" fetchpriority=\"low\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3929512\">Believers pray in front of the tomb of Carlo Acutis in the Shrine of the Renunciation, part of the Church of Saint Mary Major, in Assisi on April 3, 2025 [Tiziana Fabi\/AFP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Vatican said Carlo has performed two miracles since his death, the first involving the healing of a Brazilian child suffering from a pancreatic malformation, the second involving the recovery of a Costa Rican student injured in an accident. Relatives of both prayed for help from the teenager.<\/p>\n<p>Carlo\u2019s mother, Antonia Salzano, was cited by the AFP news agency as saying her son was possessed with the gift of seeing that \u201ceach person is unique and unrepeatable, originals and not photocopies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s ceremony, initially set for April but postponed when Pope Francis died, will be a first for Leo, who will also canonise Pier Giorgio Frassati, a young Italian man who was known for helping those in need and died of polio in the 1920s.<\/p>\n<p>It was Francis who had pushed the case for Carlo\u2019s sainthood forward, convinced that the church needed someone like him to attract young Catholics to the faith while addressing the promises and perils of the digital age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCarlo was well aware that the whole apparatus of communications, advertising and social networking can be used to lull us, to make us addicted to consumerism and buying the latest thing on the market,\u201d Francis wrote in a 2019 document.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYet he knew how to use the new communications technology to transmit the Gospel, to communicate values and beauty.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3929518\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3929518\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25249299496621-1757174786.jpg?w=770&#038;resize=770%2C514&#038;quality=80\" alt=\"Pope Leo XIV \" fetchpriority=\"low\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3929518\">Pope Leo XIV waves to the faithful, some holding pictures of Carlo Acutis as he arrives in St Peter\u2019s Square at the Vatican for an open-air Jubilee audience [Andrew Medichini\/AP Photo]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Leo inherited the cause and has also pointed to technology, in particular artificial intelligence, as one of the main challenges facing humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Carlo\u2019s most well-known tech legacy is the website he created about so-called Eucharistic miracles, available in nearly 20 languages.<\/p>\n<p>The site compiles information about the 196 seemingly inexplicable events over the history of the Catholic Church related to the Eucharist, which the faithful believe is the body of Christ.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Italian teenager called \u201cGod\u2019s Influencer\u201d is to become the first millennial Catholic saint at a ceremony led by Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. Tens of thousands of worshippers are expected to attend Sunday\u2019s canonisation in St Peter\u2019s Square of Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia in 2006 at the age of 15. 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