This Italian Teen Computer Whiz Is Set To Become The Catholic Church’s First Millennial Saint
Carlos Acutis was dubbed a “computer genius” at a young age, using his skills to build websites for Catholic organizations, including one where he document miracles around the world.
This Italian teen computer whiz is set to become the Catholic church’s first millennial saint.
Born in London in 1991, Carlos Acutis and his family moved shortly after his birth to Italy, where he died of leukemia at the age of 15 in 2006.
He was dubbed a “computer genius” at a young age, using his skills to build websites for Catholic organizations, including one where he document miracles around the world.
When he died, the city’s poor residents even attended Acutis’ funeral according to Vatican News.
In 2012, a member of the clergy started the process of canonizing him, which is “the official admission of a dead person into sainthood”.
In order to become a saint, Acutis needed to have two miracles credited to him.
In 2020, Pope Francis recognized Acutis' first miracle when a Brazilian boy with a rare pancreatic disease healed after he came in contact one of Acutis’ T-shirts.
Then on Thursday May 23, the church acknowledged Acutis' second miracle, when a young Costa Rican woman started recovering from a head injury after her mother prayed at Acutis’ tomb.
The church has yet to set a date for his official canonization ceremony, but he is already popularly known as “the patron saint of the Internet”.
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