A teenage computer gamer and programmer from Italy who devoted the final years of his life to the church until his death in 2006 was beatified over the weekend, making him the first millennial to be put on the path to Catholic sainthood.
Cardinal Agostino Vallini, left, holds a relic of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia, during his beatification ceremony celebrated in the St. Francis Basilica, in Assisi, Italy, on Saturday.Cardinal Agostino Vallini, left, holds a relic of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia, during his beatification ceremony celebrated in the St. Francis Basilica, in Assisi, Italy, on Saturday.
Acutis has been called the"patron saint of the Internet." He created a website to catalog miracles and managed sites for local Catholic organizations. Vallini kissed the boy's mask-wearing parents, Andrea Acutis and Antonia Salzano, after reading the proclamation decreed by Pope Francis."He was considered a computer genius," his mother told Vatican News."But what did he do? He didn't use [computers] to chat or have fun."
He was canonized in 2013 and made"Venerable" in 2018. With his beatification, he is designated"Blessed," according to CNA.
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