Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
UK tech wiz to be a saint after ‘miracle’
AN English computer genius who died of leukaemia aged 15 in 2006 is set to become a saint after he was accredited with a boy’s “miracle” recovery from a rare disease.
The Brazilian youngster was cured of a pancreatic anomaly in 2012 after prayers for Carlo Acutis to intervene with God.
The Vatican has now accepted it as a miracle by Carlo, who was born in London to Italian parents and moved to Milan when he was a child.
He will be beatified – the fourth of five stages to become a saint – this October in Assisi, where he is buried. Because of his passion for technology, he is set to be named as a “future patron of the internet”.
His mother Antonia said: “He was a computer genius, so this probably makes him very close to the people of nowadays.
“He lived the same life as them, he liked to play video games and use the internet.”
Carlo also helped the homeless and stood up for bullied classmates at school.
The most recently declared British saint – in 1976 – was John Ogilvie, a Scottish martyr who died in 1615.