Tag: Carlo Acutis

• Monday, September 8th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

  Pope Leo XIV canonizes first saint to have lived in the 21st Century

  

  Pope Leo XIV canonized two young Italians, Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati, on Sunday at a ceremony in St. Peter's Square before a crowd of around 70,000 people.

• Friday, May 24th 2024 - 10:32 UTC

  The first millennial and “God's influencer” to be canonized by Pope Francis

  

  BBC is reporting that a London-born teenager - whose proficiency at spreading the teachings of the Catholic church online led to him being called “God's influencer” - is set to become a saint. Carlo Acutis died in 2006, at the age of 15, meaning he would be the first millennial - a person born in the early 1980s to late 1990s - to be canonized.