Carlo Acutis will become the first saint of the Catholic Church in the third millennium and the first saint of the millennium
London-born teenager Carlo Acutis, deceased from leukemia at the age of 15, will become the first saint of the Catholic Church in the 3rd millennium.
The Guardian and BBC-Ukraine write about this.
The media calls the teenager a “patron of the Internet” and a “God influencer.” He is the first millennial to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
Biography of Carlo Acutis
Carlo Acutis was born in London in 1991 to Italian parents who left Milan in search of work. When the family returned to Milan, at the age of 12 he became actively involved in church life.
The teenager's mother told the Corriere della Sera newspaper that from the age of three her son asked to attend church and donated his pocket money to the poor people in the city. According to her, when the boy grew up, he gave all his pocket money to poor people, at school he supported classmates who were offended by other children or whose parents were going through a divorce, and he delivered food to the homeless.
The teenager developed websites for his parish and school. He also launched a website designed to document every miracle reported. The guy was involved in charity work – he always tried to help the poor, worked as a volunteer in a canteen for the needy. According to his peers, he was an ordinary teenager – sociable, played the saxophone, participated in a youth oratorio.
Acutis died in 2006 at the age of 15 from leukemia.
Canonization
The guy was beatified (the first step towards holiness) in 2020. Then he was credited with the first miracle – the alleged healing of a Brazilian child from a congenital disease “after contact with one of Acutis' T-shirts.”
The Catholic Church's special unit for the study of miracles, called the Medical Council of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, is now investigating claims that a Costa Rican woman made a miraculous recovery after a bicycle accident in Florence in 2022. Valeria Valverde, 21, reportedly underwent emergency surgery and her family was told she was in critical condition.
Six days later, her mother went to Acutis’s grave to pray for her daughter’s recovery. RCC claims that on the same day, Valverde began breathing without a ventilator and regained the use of her upper limbs and speech. She was discharged from intensive care after 10 days.
Note that the last date of birth of the 912 people canonized by Pope Francis was 1926. Carlo Acutis will become the first saint of the Catholic Church in the third millennium and the first millennial saint (the generation born in the early 1980s – late 1990s).
Earlier, Pope Francis called for more births and criticized contraceptives.
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