"Tens of thousands of worshippers are expected to attend Sunday's canonisation in St Peter's Square of Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia in 2006 at the age of 15. Born in London, England, in 1991 to Italian parents, Carlo grew up in the northern Italian city of Milan, where he taught himself basic coding and used his computing talents to document miracles and other elements of the Catholic faith online."
"The story of the cyber-apostle, who is said to have attended Mass daily and shown kindness to bullied children and homeless people, attracted Catholic youth worldwide, and it will now see him elevated to the same level as Francis of Assisi. Dressed in jeans and a pair of Nike trainers, the teenager's body lies in a glass-walled tomb in Assisi, a medieval city and pilgrimage site in the central region of Umbria, and is visited by hundreds of thousands of people every year."
"The Vatican said Carlo has performed two miracles since his death, the first involving the healing of a Brazilian child suffering from a pancreatic malformation, the second involving the recovery of a Costa Rican student injured in an accident. Relatives of both prayed for help from the teenager. Carlo's mother, Antonia Salzano, was cited by the AFP news agency as saying her son was possessed with the gift of seeing that each person is unique and unrepeatable, originals and not photocopies."
Carlo Acutis, born in London in 1991 to Italian parents and raised in Milan, died of leukaemia in 2006 at age 15. He taught himself coding and used computing to document miracles and Catholic faith elements online. He attended Mass daily and showed kindness to bullied children and homeless people. Tens of thousands are expected to attend his canonisation in St Peter's Square led by Pope Leo XIV, making him the first millennial saint. Two miracles have been attributed to him: the healing of a Brazilian child with a pancreatic malformation and the recovery of a Costa Rican student after an accident. His body lies in Assisi.
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