A London-born teenager is set to become the first millennial to be made a saint after he has had a second miracle attributed to him by Pope Francis.

Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia in 2006, aged 15, was beatified in 2020 after appearing to have cured a Brazilian boy, Mattheus Vianna, of a serious birth defect which left him unable to keep down his food.

That miracle, which dates back to February 2014, saw the boy being “fully cured” after he touched Carlo’s relic and said “stop vomiting”, a priest and family friend of Mattheus’s said.

The second miracle saw a girl from Costa Rica who was studying in Italy reportedly being healed after suffering a head trauma.

She was reportedly cured by the boy after he was invoked by her mother, Avvenire, the daily newspaper of the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI), reports.

Pope Francis took the decision to attribute the second miracle to Carlo during a meeting with the head of the Vatican’s saint-making department, Cardinal Marcello Semeraro.

  • DominusOfMegadeus
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    This is definitely 100% legitimate and does not damage the Catholicism brand in any way.

  • southsamurai
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    Damn, this kid is slacking. Fucking millennials, doing half the work of their elders and getting twice the praise. I mean, c’mon, a little vomiting, a little head trauma? Homie needs to be fixing some leprosy or cancer like the real saints used to. Dude is barely managed two illegals miracles in a decade ffs.

    Hell, St Jude used to help me get it up every time I had to bang someone’s mom after pwning their asses, and this kid is out here doing nothing useful at all. Sheesh. Millennials.

    Spolier spoiler >!Just in case anyone can’t tell, the real problem is pretending some dead kid is making shit happen in the first place!<