Pope Francis will canonize influencer Carlo Acutis, the first “saint of the internet”

Pope Francis will canonize influencer Carlo Acutis, the first “saint of the internet”

Pope Francis announced this Wednesday during the general audience that will canonize to Italian Carlo Acutisa young man who died at the age of 15 in 2006 and was recognized as the “internet saint” for spreading your faith and helping others through the networks.

The event will happen during Teenage Jubilee which will be celebrated from April 24 to 28, 2025, and will introduce the world to the first millennial, digital and technological saint of the Catholic church.

After the first announcementsthe authorities determined that the mass will occur on April 27 in it Vatican and will consecrate Acutis as one of the most influential among the young Catholics who will attend the ceremony.

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Carlo Acutis’s first miracle occurred in 2013 in Brazil.

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Who was Carlos Acutis

He internet saint He was born in 1991 in London and died in 2006 in Italy at the age of 15 from a definitive leukemiawhere he was later buried in the Basilica of Assisi.

After 18 years of his death, his canonization and his declaration as blessed in the basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, were among the faster processes that took place in the history of the Catholic Church.

The two miracles of Acutis

He first miracle It occurred on October 12, 2013 in Campo Grande, in Brazilwhen the Congregation for the Causes of Saints determined as necessary beatification facing an inexplicable healing.

Through the prayers and affirmationsthe young man managed heal a child who suffered from a pancreatic disease for which there was no cure, and where some time after Acutis’s visit, it was discovered that there was healed.

He second miracle that drove his canonizationwas the healing of Valeria Valverdea 21-year-old girl from Costa Rica who had suffered severe head trauma after falling from her bicycle.

After the few chances and possibilities of survive what the doctors determined, his mother opted for pilgrimage towards the carlo’s tomb and pray for their help and healing. Exactly that same day, her daughter returned to breathe on your own and managed to regain his health.

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