- Title: Pope to make late Italian millennial Carlo Acutis a saint in April
- Date: 20th November 2024
- Summary: ASSISI, ITALY (FILE - MAY 26, 2024) (REUTERS) VISITOR TOUCHING TOMB OF ITALIAN TEENAGER CARLO ACUTIS, WHO DIED OF LEUKAEMIA IN 2006 AT THE AGE OF 15 AND WHOM THE POPE CLEARED TO BECOME THE FIRST SAINT OF THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION IN SANCTUARY OF SPOGLIAZIONE INSIDE THE CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE ACUTIS IN TOMB SEEN THROUGH GLASS IHS LOGO ON THE TOMB ACUTIS' FACE IN THE TOMB ACUTIS' HANDS VISITORS LOOKING AT THE TOMB
- Embargoed: 4th December 2024 10:29
- Keywords: BLESSED CARLO ACUTIS POPE FRANCIS SAINT TEENAGER
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An Italian teenager who used his computer skills to spread the Catholic faith will become the first saint from the millennial generation when he is canonized next April.
Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia in 2006 aged 15, was dubbed "God's influencer." Born in London, he grew up in Milan where he took care of the websites for his parish and a Vatican-based academy.
Pope Francis told his weekly general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday (November 20) that Acutis will be made a saint during the weekend of April 25 to 27.
That weekend, the Vatican is celebrating a Jubilee for Adolescents as part of the Catholic holy year in Rome, which opens at the end of December. The Vatican did not give an exact date for the canonization ceremony.
The pope also said on Wednesday he would canonize Pier Giorgio Frassati, a young Italian man who was known for helping those in need and died of polio in the 1920s, during the weekend of July 28-Aug. 3.
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