Pope Francis today said he will canonize Carlo Acutis next April, making the late teenager the Catholic Church’s first millennial and digital saint. Acutis was a British-born Italian website designer who documented Eucharistic miracles on a website he designed before his death from leukemia in 2006 when he was 15.
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