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How a 15-Year-Old Gamer Became the Patron Saint of the Internet

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Carlo Acutis will officially be named a saint next year .

Born in 1991 , he grew up an only child in a newly connected world.

From a young age, he was acutely interested in Eucharistic miracles.

In 2004 , he started a website to document these miracles.

He was diagnosed with leukemia just days after the website was launched, but died at 15 .

The Pope approved Carlo Acutis ’ canonization in July , with an official ceremony set for 2025 .

It makes him the first ever millennial saint and, as some Catholics have put it, “God’s influencer” and the “patron saint of the internet “.