Carlo Acutis, ‘God’s influencer’ who died age 15, declared a saint by Pope Leo | Catholicism

A London -born Italian young computer buzz, who died in 2006 from the age of 15, was declared in the first thousand -year -old saint of the Catholic Church during the open -air mass in a packaged St Peter Square.

Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia, built multilingual websites to spread Catholic teaching and then won the nickname “God’s impressive”. Another young Catholic activist who died a century ago, Pier Giorgio Frassati, alongside Pope Leo Xiv.

One hour before the mass, the St Peter Square was full of tens of thousands of pilgrims from around the world, many of which were a thousand -year -old Italian and American, as the family of Acutis looked at.

An estimated crowd with 80,000 brave Summa temperatures, and many of them were forced to pour into the boulevards next to the square with witnesses who described the atmosphere as cheerful and party -like.

Büyük The biggest risk in life is to waste him out of God’s plan, Leo Leo said, saying that Acutis and Frassati dedicated them to God and made their “masterpieces” of their lives. The new saints said, “It is an invitation to all, especially young people, not to waste our lives, but to direct them upwards”.

Both ceremonies were planned earlier this year, but he was postponed after the death of Pope Francis, who pushed Acutis’s saints’ case forward to attract young Catholics.

The carpets depicting the images of Saints Pier Giorgio and Carlo were hung on the front of St Peter Basilica because the two men were celebrated like pop stars. In particular, the commitment to Acutis has expanded to a wide range of products, including action figures, T -shirts, mobile phone stickers and hand fans. Leo dressed in gold clothes, said in front of the audience: “I’m glad to see too many young people!”

Last year, more than 1 million people flocked more than 1 million people in the Church of Maria Maggiore, which is covered with a wax mold of Acutis’s body-flashing, wearing a blue tracksuit, jeans and trainers. In a golden coffin in the San Rufino Cathedral of the town, his heart led to the pericardia of tissue pieces-hearts surrounding the membrane-canonization. A statue of a bronze life in the town is also exhibited.

His mother Antonia Salzano toured the world, spent speeches about the life of his son’s life, and brought the threads of his son’s hair as a gift.

After the death of Carlo, two young siblings, including his family, were found in a mass of canonization. His brother Michele made a reading.

Salzano told Guardian to the family, but his son showed a deep commitment to his Catholic faith at a young age. “Every day he would go to the audience and make a rosary,” he said and added that he was a child who cannot be indifferent to sadness ”. “We lived in a building surrounded by beggars in the center of Milan. He wanted to help them, talk to them, bring food and blankets.”

He added that Acutis was an average child otherwise, stuck with your friends or plays sports. “Carlo was an internet Geek, but he had the attitude of using technology well and did not benefit from it,” he said.

Acutis was born on May 3, 1991 in a wealthy but especially observer in London. Shortly after birth, they returned to Milan.

Acutis was particularly interested in computer science, and even as a young man, he swallowed university -level books on programming. A resourceful encoder, Whiz-Kiudağı reputation, began to grow when it created websites for Catholic organizations, miraclesHe won the name of the “cyber apostle”. In addition, although it limits its use to one hour a week, she enjoyed playing on a discipline-Plystation, a discipline that appeals to a Catholic hierarchy that often warned about the dangers of a technology-style world.

In October 2006, he became 15 years old with what was rapidly diagnosed with acute leukemia. He died in days. He was buried in Assisi, known for his relationship with another popular saint St Francis.

The movement, which was built around Acutis, was evident from the day he died, because serious sick people began to pray to him for treatments. A series of people attended the funeral among immigrants and bullying children.

His mother claims that he started to make miracles at the funeral and gave two loans to Francis Acutis last year. First, it included the healing of a child in Brazil from a rare congenital disease affecting his pancreas; The second is the bleeding of a student in Florence on a head trauma on the brain and the improvement that his mother prayed in the grave of Acutis in Assisi.

The rate of canonizing Acutis, especially compared to Frasati, shows how willing the church is to attract more young people.

Canonization usually follows a long and detailed process that includes a meticulous investigation that determines the accuracy of the miracles attributed to the individual of the Vatican and external experts. The beating of Acutis before the canonization was carried out in 2020 by Pope Francis.