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Pope Leo to canonize first millennial as a saint after teen boy performed 'miracles'

A British teenager who died at the tender age of 15 is set to be canonized as a saint by the pope after performing so-called miracles. Carlo Acutis, who succumbed to leukemia in 2006, will finally be ...
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Pope Leo canonizes 'God's influencer,' the Catholic Church's first millennial saint

Pope Leo XIV declared 15-year-old Carlo Acutis the first millennial saint at an open-air mass attended by tens of thousands of people in St Peter's Square outside the Vatican on Sunday. Informally ...
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Meet St. Carlo Acutis The Millennial Saint

A teenager in Nikes who loved Pokémon and played PlayStation doesn’t fit the traditional image of a saint. But on September 7, 2025, Carlo Acutis was canonized as the first millennial saint in the ...
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Pope declares 15-year-old computer programmer Carlo Acutis first millennial saint

Late computer programming Italian teenager Carlo Acutis became the first millennial saint on Sunday. Pope Leo XIV held Acutis’s canonization Mass on Sunday, making Acutis his first canonization during ...