A boy who died at the age of 15 has been made a saint by the Catholic Church. Carlo Acutus died in 2006 from leukemia. He became interested in Catholicism as a child and showed an interest in helping others. He was also a keen gamer who was interested in computers and taught himself to programme. And he had created websites to document reported religious miracles and helped run pages for Catholic organisations. The Catholic Church claims that after his death, he caused at least two people to recover from serious illnesses.
Crowds of people have visited his body, which is preserved and on display in Assisi in Italy. Let's have our first headline and this is from CNN. Carlo Acutus, nicknamed God's influencer, becomes first millennial saint. And that headline again from CNN. Carlo Acutus, nicknamed God's influencer, becomes the first millennial saint.
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