Carlo Acutis: How do you become a saint - and how did the millennial saint do it?

Carlo Acutis: How do you become a saint - and how did the millennial saint do it?

The Pope will canonise the first millennial saint at the end of the month.

Carlo Acutis is canonized and is the first saintly Millennial to be venerated. Thousands of pilgrims visit him in Assisi. His mother tells of his life.

Carlo Acutis: How Do You Become A Saint - And How Did The Millennial Saint Do It? - Great Yorkshire Radio

The teenager, whose Italian family moved to Milan months after his birth in 1991, dedicated his short life to Catholicism, and died of leukaemia in 2006 aged 15. Having passed all the posthumous trials necessary for sainthood, he will be canonised on 27 April in St Peter’s Square in Vatican City. But what does it take to become a saint and how did Carlo achieve it? Here’s everything you need to know. What does it mean to be a saint? All Christia…

Carlo Acutis, the 15-year-old “God’s Influencer” who combined faith with the internet, will be the first millennial to be canonized by the Catholic Church.