05/09/2025
𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙤 𝘼𝙘𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝘽𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙁𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙈𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩
Carlo Acutis, a 15 year-old Italian known for using technology to promote faith, will be officially declared a saint on September 7, 2025, the Vatican confirms. The ceremony will be presided over by Pope Leo XIV.
Acutis, who passed away from leukemia in 2006, earned the nickname “God’s influencer” for his website chronicling Eucharistic miracles and for connecting faith with the internet generation
Two miracles made his sainthood possible: the 2020 healing of a Brazilian boy with a pancreatic defect, and the 2022 recovery of a student named Valeria from a brain injury after her mother prayed at Acutis’s tomb.
Originally, the canonization was slated for April 27, 2025, during the Jubilee of Teenagers, but it was postponed after Pope Francis’s passing on April 21.
Carlo Acutis will become the first millennial to be declared a saint in the Catholic Church’s history.
Sources:
Associated Press. (2025, June 13). First millennial saint Carlo Acutis will be canonized Sept. 7. AP News. https://apnews.com/article/vatican-saint-acutis-millennial-68d1af81ed757bf504399dcf08c1720d
People Magazine. (2025, September 2). ‘God’s Influencer,’ 15, set to become first millennial saint on Sunday amid his family revealing their ‘saintly roots’. People. https://people.com/carlo-acutis-first-millennial-saint-canonization-sunday-11801210
Reuters. (2025, September 4). Italian teen to become first millennial Catholic saint on Sunday. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/world/italian-teen-become-first-millennial-catholic-saint-sunday-2025-09-04
💻: A. Gorre | The Reach Out Creatives
