Pope Francis has attributed two miracles to the London-born teenager, who built websites for church and died of leukaemia
He was a London-born teenager with leukaemia who spread his faith by building websites, later gaining the moniker “God’s influencer”.
And now Carlo Acutis, a computer prodigy who died at the age of 15 in 2006, will become the first millennial canonised by the Catholic church next week, in St Peter’s Square.
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