Blessed Carlo Acutis: The New Patron Saint of Millennials, Generation Z?
Pope Francis approved a second miracle four years after his first: He is a new role model — The one thing we need to do to be holy
Updated May 23, 2024: Pope Francis today announced Carlos Acutis will become the first millennial saint. He’s now called “God’s influencer.”
His canonization as St. Carlos Acutis will be completed in 2025, the Church’s Jubilee Year, because the Vatican recognized a second approved miracle, the miraculous healing of Valeria Valverde, who nearly died from a serious head injury in 2022.
Six days after the accident, her mother prayed at the new saint’s tomb: 10 later, tests showed that the hemorrhagic right temporal cortical contusion in her brain had completely disappeared.
Saints stare at computer screens, too. Blessed Carlo Acutis (1991–2006) loved Super Mario, Playstation, and Pokémon, but he loved Jesus more.
“He had his gaze turned to Jesus,’’ Cardinal Agostino Vallini said at Carlo’s beatification on October 10. “Love for the Eucharist was the foundation that kept alive his relationship with God. He often said, ‘The Eucharist is my highway to Heaven.’ He was an ordinary boy, simple, spontaneous…
