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Explainer: Carlo Acutis, God’s Influencer, the Millennial Saint - Religion Media Centre

By Catherine Pepinster On Sunday 7 September, Pope Leo XIV will canonise Carlo Acutis at a ceremony at St Peter’s Basilica. The British-born teenager, who died aged 15, has been called the first millennial saint and God’s Influencer. Thousands have been made saints by the Roman Catholic Church. Why is this canonisation special? It will be the first canonisation conducted by Pope Leo XIV since he was elected in May. It was to have been carried ou…
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The Italian Carlo Acutis died of cancer in 2006 at the age of 15. On Sunday, the Pope will sanctify the influencer of God. Good business is already done with the memory of Acutis. But was he really so pious?

·Germany
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On Friday, 7 September, a 15-year-old Italian boy died in 2006, was declared holy by the Cat lita Church. The short per hour of time between his death and the Beatification or, in 2020, contrasts with the extended time of these processes in Catholicism, which rarely remained for more than a hundred years. Now, with the canonization of the mark, once or at the press one: Carlo Acutis the Saint of the Church for chapter 21 and at the key of its al…

·São Paulo, Brazil
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Pope Leo XIV will proclaim holy the young Italian who united faith with computer science. The ceremony, initially planned for this year, had been postponed after the death of Pope Francis. Read more

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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