🙏 'God's Influencer' Carlo Acutis Becomes First Millennial Saint

An Italian teenager who liked playing video games has become the Catholic Church’s first "millennial”" saint.

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Jersey and Amanda jam Nation. The world has its first
millennial saint. His name is Carlo Acutes. You have to
pass away to be a saint. All this stuff is
new to me. I'm not a Catholic and I'm just
interested in a ritual and the stories around this. Here's
the news story you may have seen this.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Affectionately known as God's Influencer, an Italian teenager has become
the first millennial saint in a ceremony at the Vatican.
Carlo Acutas died from leukemia in two thousand and six
at the age of fifteen. With a keen interest in
computer science, he developed multi lingual websites to document miracles
and the Catholic faith. Pope Leo canonized the so called

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cyber Apostle, recognizing his efforts to spread religion online.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
And because he passed away so young, and you know,
the first millennial, as we say, the saint in sneakers,
his big official portrait that was hanging in the Vatican yesterday.
As you said a bit earlier, Brendan, He's got this
bigotific light behind him, but he's in his footye jersey. Unusual,
isn't it? But this is the new thing? Is that
is I'm a Catholic? Is that a thing? Though? When

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they when the saint dies, they've got to be in
some sort of robes. Well, no, but that's what we've
had so far. This is interesting. This is the passing
of the of the guard, so the changing of the
guard that now a younger person. They're hoping this will
revive the church in the eyes of younger people. There's
a whole lot of benefits to this. But you do
have to have performed two miracles yep, post to death.

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The first miracle, he healed a Brazilian boy with a
rare pancreatic disorder because his mother, Carlos's Carlo's mother would
travel around a variety of churches and say, pray to
my son who has passed away. So that happened and
that that boy was healed. He had a second one.
He healed a girl in Florence. She had head trauma

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from a bicycle. Doctor's expected permanent brain damage or death.
Parents prayed, they prayed to him, prayed to him. You
have to have to at least two right of these. Interestingly,
it said he he loved to play with his PlayStation,
but he limited himself to playing just one hour a
week to ensure his focus remained on God. That's miracle
number three. That's he would have had good WiFi myself,

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no need for an Ethernet cable. It's interesting that there's
a parish priest at our Lady of delus Is. How
do you say that in Sydney displays a lyric a
relic of Saint Carlos. Two of his hairs are there
in a shrine. Interestingly, so there was a big ceremony yesterday.
As we said little this is the first time a

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saint has been born in the millennial generation post nineteen eighties.
Look at that.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
They have quite the gaming room, weren't he.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
I've been heaven Brandan. Is that what you think? Is it?
Over an hour now?

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And Peter Rodney