Teen computer whiz made first millennial Catholic saint

In 2006, a young man who died of leukemia was the first Catholic saint of the thousand -year generation at a Vatican ceremony, led by Pope Leo and 70,000 young worshipers from dozens of countries.

Carlo Acutis, an Italian child who died at the age of 15, learned a computer code to create websites to spread his faith.

His story attracted great attention from Catholic youth, and now at the same level as his Assisi Teresa and Francis.

Leo, the first US Pontiff, canon Acutis with Pier Giorgio Frassati, a young Italian man, known for helping those who needed in the 1920s and died of children’s paralysis.

In the opening of the event, Leo, Acutis and Frassati were examples of sacredness and helping those who need them.

“We all, we all call together, saint, Pon Pontiff said, from the main boulevard to the young crowd from Rome to the Vatican.

Leo, “Carlo… He liked to say that heaven has always been waiting for us and that love is to give the best of ourselves today.” He said.

Acutis’s canonization was warmly expected by many Catholic young people for months.

It was initially founded for April, but was postponed after Pope Francis’s death.

On Sunday, Leo, who chose the Pope for the first time by the world cardinals in May, chaired such a ceremony.

The 24 -year -old Antonio d’Averio, who was at the ceremony, called canonization “a hand extended to the US youth by the church”.

D’Averio said he was a computer programmer and is especially identified with the story of Acutis.

“He was also passionate about computer science,” the young man said.

“For a saint … This is definitely a new thing.

20 -year -old Clara Marugan Martin came from Spain for the event.

“We are very pleased to be here because Carlo and Pier Giorgio, we want to follow two examples and steps of young people full of God,” he said.

Doing a saint means that the church believes that a person leads a sacred life and now believes that he is in heaven with God.

One of the other saints who died in 1897, who died in 1897 and is known to have encouraged a “small way”, Thererese from Lisieux; And Alicsius Gonzaga, who died in 1591 in 1591 after looking at the victims of a epidemic in Rome.

Acutis moved to a church in accordance with the last requests of Acutis in the town of Assisi, Assisi of St Francis in Central Italy, as Acutis progressed on the way to the saints of the church.

The latest resting place of the new Saint, where Acutis’s similarity, which was placed on the body of Acutis, was buried with a wax pattern, has become a popular area of ​​dedication every day.