Italian Computer-Coding Teen to Be First Millennial Saint
Pope Francis has recognized a miracle attributed to Blessed Carlo
Acutis — paving the way for the British-born Italian teenager to become
the first millennial saint.
Acutis, born in 1991, died of cancer in 2006; the Vatican claims he interceded from heaven in 2013 to cure a Brazilian boy with a rare pancreatic disease.
With the recognition of a second miracle attributed to the
intercession of the computer-coding teen a possible canonization could
occur during the Catholic Church's 2025 Jubilee Year, the Catholic News
Agency reported.
In a decree Wednesday, Pope Francis approved the miraculous healing
of 21-year-old Valeria Valverde of Costa Rica after a near-deadly
bicycle accident in 2022, the news agency reported.
Six days afterward, the young woman's mother went on a pilgrimage to
Assisi to pray for her daughter's healing at the tomb of Blessed Carlo
Acutis, leaving a written note, the outlet reported.
That same day, Valverde began to breathe on her own, and further
tests showed the hemorrhagic right temporal cortical contusion in her
brain had completely disappeared, the outlet reported.
On Sept. 2, 2022, two months after her accident, Valverde went on a
pilgrimage to Carlo Acutis' tomb in Assisi with her mother to celebrate
the recovery.
Acutis is the first millennial to be beatified by the Catholic
Church. He died at the age of 15 shortly after being diagnosed with
leukemia, the outlet reported.
An image of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, shown during his beatification ceremony in 2020
