Teenager to become Catholic Church's first millennial saint – WPXI

The Vatican made the announcement Thursday, the New York Times reported.

Carlo was born in 1991 in London and eventually moved to Milan with his family. Her parents were not religious but her faith was supported by her Polish nanny. He began attending Mass at age 7 and eventually encouraged his mother to join the church.

In addition to playing video games such as Halo, Super Mario and Pokémon, Carlo taught himself programming to create a website listing miracles, the Times reported.

His body was transferred to Assisi after his death where it was placed in a sanctuary with the relics linked to him.

He was beatified for the first time, becoming the first millennial to do so, after an initial miracle was attributed to him in 2020. A boy from Brazil suffered from a congenital pancreatic defect and could not eat normally. The child was cured, CNN reported.

In one year, about 117,000 people visited Carlo's shrine, the Washington Post and Catholic News Service reported.

The second miracle involves a young girl from Costa Rica who suffered a head injury after falling off her bike while studying in Florence. The girl's mother prayed for her daughter at Carlo's grave and was healed.

His mother also claimed that people around the world had told her about miracles granted after praying to her son, such as cures for infertility and cancer, the Times reported.

“Carlo was the light-hearted answer to the dark side of the web,” his mother Antonia told The Times in 2020.

Carlo is not yet a saint.

He is already called the patron saint of the Internet, the Times reported, but the pope still has to call a meeting of cardinals to accept him and then set a date for his canonization.