VATICAN CITY – Pope Leo XIV was set to declare a 15-year-old computer whiz, Carlo Acutis , the first millennial saint on Sunday, giving the next generation of Catholics a relatable role model who used technology to spread the faith and earn the nickname “God’s influencer.”

An open-air Mass in St. Peter’s Square, the first saint-making ceremony of Leo's pontificate, was expected to draw hundreds of thousands of people and was also set to canonize another popular Italian figure who died young, Pier Giorgio Frassati.

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Both ceremonies were scheduled for earlier this year, but were postponed following Pope Francis’ death in April. Francis had fervently pushed the Acutis sainthood case forward, convinced that the church needed someone like him to attract young Catholics

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