Carlo Acutis canonized at Vatican ceremony led by Pope Leo

Carlo Acutis, a British-born Italian teenager who died of leukemia in 2006, will be raised to sainthood on Sunday in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in a ceremony led by Pope Leo, becoming the first Catholic saint of the millennial generation. The canonization, postponed in April after the death of Pope Francis, is expected to draw tens of thousands of pilgrims and marks one of the new pope's first major liturgical acts.

Acutis, who was 15 when he died, gained attention for using his self-taught computer skills to document Eucharistic miracles and promote the Catholic faith online. Known among supporters as "God's influencer," he created a widely exhibited virtual gallery of more than 100 reported Eucharistic miracles and used websites to spread religious teaching. His body, dressed in casual clothing, is entombed in Assisi and has become a major pilgrimage site, visited by hundreds of thousands annually.

Supporters and church officials point to two posthumous healings as the miracles required for canonization. The Vatican has attributed one to the unexplained recovery of a Brazilian child in 2020 after prayers to Acutis. It also recognized a second miracle in July 2022 in...