‘God’s influencer’ Carlo Acutis to become first millennial saint | Religion News

An Italian teenager called “God’s Influencer” is to become the first millennial Catholic saint at a ceremony led by Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican.

Tens of thousands of worshippers are expected to attend Sunday’s canonisation in St Peter’s Square of Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia in 2006 at the age of 15.

Born in London, England, in 1991 to Italian parents, Carlo grew up in the northern Italian city of…