The canonisation of a British Italian teenager as the primary millennial saint has been postponed as a consequence of the Pope’s death.
Carlo Acutis, who died of acute leukemia in 2006 when he was 15, created an internet site cataloguing greater than 100 eucharistic miracles recognised by the Catholic church.
The young web designer began the location in 2004 and worked on it for 2 and a half years, involving much of his family within the project.
It was unveiled just days before he passed away.
Each miracle on the location was translated into twenty languages and accompanied with images, maps and video.
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Around ten years ago a bunch of priests and friends of Carlo began an initiative to have Carlo sainted.
He was named ‘venerable’ in 2018 after the church recognised his virtuous life, and his body was taken to a shrine in Assisi’s Santuario della Spogliazione.
He was then declared ‘blessed’ in 2020 after the Vatican dicastery, which studies sainthood processes, found the ‘scientifically inexplainable’ recovery of a sick child in Brazil was all the way down to the teen touching considered one of Carlo’s t-shirts.
Last 12 months, the church attributed a second miracle to him – the entire recovery of a Costa Rican student in Italy from major head trauma in a bicycle accident – after her mother prayed at Carlo’s tomb.
This paved the option to his canonization, which was purported to occur next Sunday, but will now be postponed.
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Carlo was born on May 3, 1991, in London to a wealthy Italian family, and grew up in Milan.
While he enjoyed regular pastimes for somebody his age – including video games, time along with his friends and climbing – he also taught catechism in an area parish and did outreach to the homeless.
His preserved body is currently on display to the general public at a church in Assisi.
Pope Francis died on the age of 88 on Easter Monday.
He had spent weeks hospital with an infection, pneumonia and difficulty respiratory.
But he had recovered enough to present a standard Easter Sunday blessing from the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica after meeting US President JD Vance.
He passed away hours later.
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