How Catholic boy, 15, dubbed 'God's influencer' converted his mother after taking her to Mass when he was three - before helping the homeless and then 'performing miracles' from beyond the grave By Dan Woodland Published: 09:13, 24 May 2024 | Updated: 10:32, 24 May 2024 e-mail 13 View comments Carlo Acutis was just 15 when he died of leukaemia, but had already carried out a lifetime of good deeds as a devoted Christian. Even after his death in 2006, the youngster, informally known as 'God's influencer', was still performing miracles, supposedly healing a critically ill child and a brain bleed victim in 2012 and 2022. Carlo told his parents after being diagnosed with the deadly blood cancer : 'I'm happy to die because I've lived my life without wasting even a minute of it doing things that wouldn't have pleased God'.
And now his as devotion to his faith has finally been recognised as Pope Francis has approved Carlo become a saint. He is set to be named as a 'future patron of the internet' due to his passion in life for spreading the word on God online. While being the first millennial to be canonised, Carlo is not the youngest.
Jacinta Marto was just 10 years old when she died in 1920, before later becoming a saint. She was canonised along with her 12-year old brother in 2017, after performing a second miracle of healing of a Brazilian child, Lucas Batista, from a head injury following a fall from a window in 2013. Other notable saints that have been canonised in modern times .
