This Italian teenager was known as “God’s effect.” He is about to become the first Millennium saint.

Millions of Catholic young people flocked to the small Central Italian city of Honor Carlo Akotis – the unofficial Italian teenager as “God’s effect.” On Sunday, the 15 -year -old will become the first Millennium saint.

He wears jeans, Nike shoes, and a heavy -type shirt, with his jam’s hands around the pink, Acuteis has given up a close fame similar to the star among the young believers that the Catholic Church has not seen since the ages.

Those who cannot make it personally can see the respondents and go on a webcam, and refer to his grave, a level of access to the Internet that is not given even to the papules buried in the Church of St. Peter.

Who was Carlo Akotis?

ACUTIS was born on May 3, 1991, in London for a wealthy Italian family. They moved to Milan shortly after his birth, and according to reports, he had a happy and happy childhood that was increasingly intense religious dedication.

He launched and managed a website for its local diocese, and then a Vatican -based academy. He also used his computer skills to create an online database of fragmentation miracles all over the world, and it is available in about 20 languages. The site provides information about the 196 events that cannot be explained in the history of the Church related to the Eucharist, which believers believe is the body of Christ.

“Carlo was well aware that the entire communications, ads and networks can be used to calm us, to make us addicted to consumerism and buy the latest thing in the market,” wrote Pope Francis in the 2019 document. “However, he knew how to use new communication technology to transfer the Bible, to connect values ​​and beauty.”

It was known that actuis spent hours in prayer before the Eucharist every day, a practice known as the Eucharist.

“This was the fixed appointment in his day,” said his mother, Antonia Salzano, in a documentary broadcast on Friday night at the United States School in Rome.

In October 2006, at the age of 15, he suffered the disease with what was quickly diagnosed as acute leukemia. He died in Monza, Italy, within days of his diagnosis. His body was supported in Asizy and is fully displayed alongside other associated monuments.

A quick path to holiness

The ACUTIS ‘to Sainthood more than 10 years ago began in the initiative of a group of priests and friends, and officially launched shortly after the papal Francis began in 2013.

The “distinguished” actuis was named after 2018 after the Church realized his virtuous life, and his body was transferred to a shrine in Santuario Della SpoGliazione in Asisi, Italy. It was a major location linked to Saint Francis’s life.

The teenager was overcome in 2020 – the first step to holiness – after it was credited with the healing of a Brazilian child from a congenital disease that affects the pancreas.

Last year, Francis agreed to The second miracle needed to manufacture the saint. The second miracle included the healing of a university student in Florence that was bleeding in the brain after being shocked in the head in a bike accident.

Francis and the Rome Corporation officially agreed to sanctify it in July 2024.

It was the first – the first for Pope Liu fourteenth – It is initially scheduled earlier this year But it was postponed below Francis died in April. Liu saint saint will announce alongside another famous Italian, Bear Giorgio Franrati, who also died a young man.

Calling for youth

For fans, Actus was an ordinary child who did unusual things: a teenager in a typical Milan went to school, played football and loved animals. But he brought food to the poor to the poor, attended the Mass every day and obtained his parents less than the ruling to the church.

“When I read his story for the first time, it was like a shock to me, because from a very early age, it was really attracted to Jesus Christ, and he would go to the Mass all the time,” said Sonia Harrison, the eighth grade at St. John Bershanz School, which is part of the diocese of Carlo Akotis in the north of its west. “I feel more connected, and I definitely feel that I am closer to God when I read it.”

During the mass of this week before the awareness, students in the church were addressed under the Actuis banner with things that might have been carrying: football, laptop and assistant.

“I fed the poor, took care of the poor,” said David Cameron, 9, who was called Acuteis as a “great man”. Cameron, a lover of Sonic, Mine Kraft and Halo, found an inspiration in love with video games – and dread in controlling Acuteis.

He told AP: “He played video games for only one hour a week, which I do not think I can do,” he told AP.