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A LONDON-born teen who died of leukaemia aged 15 is to be made a saint next year, the Pope has said.
Pope Francis told his weekly Vatican audience yesterday that Carlo Acutis will be canonised in April.
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The ceremony is scheduled to take place during the Catholic Church’s Jubilee for Adolescents in Rome from April 25 to 27.
Carlo, born in London in 1991 to an Italian mum and half-English, half-Italian dad, was known as “God’s influencer” for spreading church teachings online.
His family returned to Milan when he was young and he died in 2006.
Carlo was beatified, the first step towards sainthood, in 2020 after he was attributed with his first miracle, the healing of a Brazilian child with a congenital disease affecting his pancreas.
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A second miracle, the healing of a university student in Florence with bleeding on the brain, was approved by the Pope earlier this year after a meeting with the Vatican’s saint-making department.
Carlo will be the church’s first millennial saint.
Of the 912 people previously canonised by the Pope, the most recent was born in 1926.
The Vatican did not give an exact date for the canonisation ceremony.
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