The Vatican hung on Thursday, 4, on the façade of St. Peter’s Basilica, a tapestry with the image of Carlo Acutis, known as the “influence of God,” which will be canonized on Sunday, 7. He will become the first Millennial Saint of the Catholic Church.
Initially scheduled for April 27, during the Jubilee of the adolescents, the ceremony was postponed due to the death of Pope Francis. The date chosen by the Vatican keeps a coincidence. It is Brazil’s Independence Day and sharp miracles in the country.
He was beatified in 2020 after the church recognized that he would have brokered a healing miracle of a Brazilian child from Mato Grosso do Sul.
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The candidate for saint was born on May 3, 1991 – those born between the early 1980s and the mid -1990s are those considered as the millennial generation – and was a lover of the Internet and Catholic faith. He died in 2006 of leukemia.
In his only 15 years of life, Acutis created religious sites and collaborated for the documentation and dissemination of miracles and online Catholic content. Hence the nickname “God’s Influencer” and “Patron of the Internet.”
He became extremely popular, especially among young Catholics who cluster in his grave in Assisi, Italy. Although he liked common hobbies for his age-walks, video games and games with friends-he also taught catechism classes in a local parish and helped the homeless.
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The young man used his computer skills to create an online exhibition on over 100 Eucharistic miracles recognized by the church over many centuries.
Two miracles recognized by the Church
Scheduled the date of September 7, Pope Leo XIV announced that Acutis would be canonized along with another Italian Catholic, Pier Giorgio Frassati, who also died young, at 24, after contracting polio.
The Vatican requires the Church to confirm two miracles attributed to the candidate’s intercession to proceed with canonization.
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In the case of Acutis, the first recognized miracle occurred in 2013 in Brazil and concerned a boy who suffered from a serious pancreatic disease and improved after praying the acutis.
The second recognized miracle concerns the medically inexplicable cure of a young Costar atermade who suffered a serious head injury by falling from a bicycle in Florence in 2022. Doctors said she was in an irreversible coma.
The young woman’s mother prayed in the tomb of Acutis and then the condition of her daughter improved. She was well enough to visit the tomb of Acutis in September.
