Pope Leo XIV announces two new saints, including first canonized millennial
Pope Leo Xiv declared the first thousand -year saint of a 15 -year -old computer genius Catholic Church and declared another popular Italian figure who spent his life spreading his faith before he died at a young age.
Leo blood in 2006, Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia and blood in 1925, in the 20 -child paralysis, the Italian student and enthusiastic Italian student and enthusiastic Pier Giorgio Frasati, who died during an open air mass in St.Peter Square before 80,000 people.
Leo said that both saints devoted them to God and created “masterpieces” from their lives.
“The biggest risk in life is to waste him out of God’s plan.” Leo said at home on Sunday. The new saints, “it is an invitation to all, especially young people, not to waste our lives, but to direct them upwards and to make a masterpiece.”
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Acutis was born on May 3, 1991 and won the nickname “God’s impressive” after creating a multilingual website documenting the Eucharistic miracles known by the Church. Young finished the site at a time when such projects are typically in the field of professionals.
In October 2006, Acutis became ill and was diagnosed with acute leukemia. He died in only 15 years old. He was buried in Assisi.
Pope Francis took the case of Acutis – the church, convinced that while dealing with the promises and dangers of the digital age, he needed someone like him to attract young Catholics.
Leo inherited the Acutis case, but he also pointed to technology – especially artificial intelligence – one of the main challenges faced by humanity.
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Leo, the other saint Kanonlaşan Frasati, “Lay spirituality was a sign for the spirituality,” he said.
Frasati lived his belief through “constant, humble, mostly secret service to the poorest”. Frasati Catholic Academy. “He simply lived and gave food, money or anything that everyone asked.”
It is believed that it made a contract with children’s paralysis in the Turin Slum neighborhoods of Italy before his death.
Ashley J. Dimella and Associated Press from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
