The news was announced by the Holy Father.
Pope Francis announced on Wednesday, during his weekly general audience in the Vatican, that he will canonize Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia in 2006 at the age of 15, as a saint in April; the late website designer with this
he will be the first and youngest Catholic saint of the new millennium and the digital age.
The ceremony will take place on April 25-27 in the Vatican, officials of the Holy See said.
Known as the "patron saint of the Internet", Carlo Acutis was born to Italian parents in London in 1991, from where his family moved back to Milan a few months later. He already taught religious studies at the age of 14-15, and also helped the homeless and the poor as a volunteer.
He loved to program, and he used his computer knowledge and talent to take care of the websites of Catholic communities.
He also created a virtual museum of Eucharistic miracles.
Carlo Acutis died of leukemia in 2006 at the age of 15. At the beginning of 2010, the Vatican published the decree that acknowledged that a miracle had occurred thanks to the intercession of the boy from Milan.
According to the document, the recognized miracle required for beatification occurred in 2013, when a Brazilian boy suffering from a serious pancreatic disease was cured thanks to the intercession of Acutis.
On October 10, 2010, Pope Francis beatified the teenager in Assisi, and in May of this year he also approved the second miracle attributed to Acutis, thus preparing for Wednesday's announcement.
In his audience on Wednesday, the head of the Catholic church also announced that he will also canonize Pier Giorgio Frassati, a young Italian man known for helping the needy, who died of polio in the 1920s, on the weekend of July 28 to August 3.
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Cover image: Carlo Acutis
Source: Rome Reports
