Touted as the “patron saint of the internet,” the late Italian teenager created a website to catalog miracles before he died in 2006.

Carlo, who was born to Italian parents in London, was a web designer who died of leukaemia in Italy in 2006 at the age of 15.

A girl visits the tomb of Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia in 2006 aged 15, in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Assisi, Italy, May 26, 2024. Pope Francis has cleared the way for Acutis to be the first saint of the millennial generation.

An Italian teenage influencer who died of leukemia will be made the first saint of the millennial generation:: Vatican City:::: Pope Francis"Next year, on Children's and Adolescents' Day, I will canonise Blessed Carlo Acutis,