A 15-year-old boy is now slated to become the Roman Catholic Church's first millennial saint. His name was Carlo Acutis, and he died in 2006 from leukemia. Sixteen years later, Pope Francis has approved a second posthumous miracle which the Medical Council of the Congregation for Saints' Causes had investigated and confirmed the validity of said miracles.
Acutis was born in London, and according to accounts from his mother, he would regularly engage in charitable acts toward the marginalized and disadvantaged in society, such as donating his pocket money to poor people, standing up for his disabled peers being bullied, and giving vagrants in Milan sleeping bags and meals.
At a young age, he taught himself how to code and he created a website that documents miracles around the world in an effort to help Catholic organizations.
The path to becoming a canonized saint for the Roman Catholic Church requires that the deceased person be involved in at least two verifiable miraculous accounts. According to the Vatican, once these two miracles attributed to the person in question has been verified, then they become candidates for sainthood.
The first of the two miracles attributed to Acutis was the recovery of a Brazilian boy from a rare pancreatic disorder after having been in contact with one of Acutis' t-shirts, at the same time, a priest had prayed to Acutis for the healing of the child.
And recently, in 2022, a Costa Rican woman claimed that she had been healed after a bicycle accident when her mother went to Acutis' tomb to pray for her. Valeria Valverde had undergone brain surgery but was still in critical condition. At that point, her mother went to Acutis' tomb to pray for her daughter, and immediately afterward, it is said that Valeria began to breathe without a ventilator and slowly recovered.
According to reports, Valeria was discharged 10 days after the miracle, with scans showing that the contusions on her brain had disappeared. - via The Daily Grail
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