"Carlo, who died of leukaemia, built websites to spread Catholic teaching, earning him the nickname God's Influencer. He was canonised alongside Pier Giorgio Frassati, another young Catholic activist, who died a century ago. Leo said both men created masterpieces out of their lives by dedicating them to God. A hour before the Mass, St Peter's Square was already full with pilgrims, many of them young millennial Italians."
"The Vatican said 36 cardinals, 270 bishops and hundreds of priests had signed up to celebrate the Mass along with Leo in a sign of the saints' enormous appeal to the hierarchy and faithful alike. Both ceremonies had been scheduled for earlier this year, but were postponed after Pope Francis' death in April. Francis had fervently pushed Acutis's sainthood case forward, convinced that the church needed someone like him to attract young Catholics to the faith"
Pope Leo XIV canonised London-born Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006 aged 15 of leukaemia, as the Catholic Church's first millennial saint during an open-air Mass in St Peter's Square. Acutis built websites to spread Catholic teaching and earned the nickname God's Influencer. He was canonised alongside Pier Giorgio Frassati, a young Catholic activist who died a century ago. Leo said both men created masterpieces out of their lives by dedicating them to God and urged young people not to waste their lives outside God's plan. The ceremonies drew large numbers of pilgrims and clergy, and Acutis's body and relics have attracted widespread pilgrimage in Assisi.
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