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Tag: Carlo Acutis

  • Friday, May 24th 2024 - 10:32 UTC

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

    London born Carlo Acutis had been beatified - the first step towards sainthood - in 2020, after he was attributed with his first miracle

    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.