The young man was known as God’s influencer because he shared the word of the Lord on social media. The Italian teenager was born in London, was known for his ability to spread the teachings of the Catholic Church on the internet and is now on his way to becoming a saint.
Carlo Acutis died in 2006 at the age of 15, he will be the first millennial in the history of our time to be canonized. He first cured a Brazilian boy of a congenital disease affecting his pancreas. But the second miracle was attributed to the Pope when a Costa Rican university student in the Italian city of Florence had an accident in 2022. Valeria Valverde, 21, suffered a brain hemorrhage after an accident.
The patron saint of the Web
Due to his ability and intelligence with new technologies, they nicknamed him God’s influencer, since he used social networks and websites to share the word of the Lord. According to information from Vatican News, after Valeria Valverde’s accident, the mother visited the young influencer’s grave and asked for her daughter’s health, despite knowing that she was very ill due to the brain hemorrhage, just one day later. It disappeared completely and the doctors could not explain the reason.
Why do they call him God’s influencer?
Carlo Acutis was beatified in 2020, after he supposedly cured a Brazilian boy of a congenital disease affecting his pancreas. There is still no date for him to be canonized. But they began to dub him God’s influencer, because he became known for launching a website that sought to document every Eucharistic miracle reported and that was released days before his death.
His website has been translated into several different languages and used as the basis for an exhibition that has traveled around the world. Pope Francis assures that the young man “knew how to use new communication techniques to transmit the Gospel, communicate values and beauty.”
Carlo Acutis died in Monza, Italy because he was ill with leukemia, his body was transferred to Assisi a year after his death.
