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This is an archive article published on May 24, 2024

Who was Carlo Acutis, set to become first ‘millennial saint’?

When he learned he was diagnosed with leukemia, during his last days, he spread his faith on his website.

SaintAccording to his mother, his passion for Catholicism arose at an early age ( Photo credit- wikipedia)

Carol Acutis is all set to become the first Millennial saint, Pope Francis declared it on Thursday. Pope announced this after a meeting with the Cardinals to consider Carlo’s sainthood. Although the date for the formal canonisation ceremony has not been announced yet, it will be soon.

Carlo, who was known as a person who loved to help the needy, was born in London on May 3, 1991, in an Italian family and moved with his family to Milan when he was a child. He died in Italy on October 12, 2006, at the age of 15 due to leukemia.

According to his mother Antonia Acutis, his passion for Catholicism arose at an early age. She said Carlo started attending daily mass at the age of 7. He was called the Patron Saint of the Internet among Roman Catholics because of his computer skills. At that time, he made his own website and used it to share his faith.

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On learning that he was diagnosed with leukemia, he spread his faith on his website during his last days. After his death, it was found that many miracles happened to those who prayed to Carlo, said Antonia. They were cured of ailments like infertility, cancer, and so on.

The process of sainthood started in 2020, when Pope Francis first attributed Carlo with a miracle: a boy with a malformed pancreas was cured when he came in contact with Carlo’s shirt. Following this incident, Acutis was beatified or blessed by the Church for the first time in a step towards achieving sainthood.

In Roman Catholic culture, it is said that to achieve sainthood, or canonisation, you should have at least two miracles attributed to you.

The final step to achieving sainthood was the second miracle, when a student from Florence University suffered a head injury. Doctors announced the need for brain surgery and warned that the survival rate was low. Then the mother of the student went to Carlo’s tomb and prayed there. The miracle happened when a CT scan showed the hemorrhage in the student’s brain had vanished, and she was cured.

 

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