Late computer programming Italian teenager Carlo Acutis became the first millennial saint on Sunday.

Pope Leo XIV held Acutis’s canonization Mass on Sunday, making Acutis his first canonization during his pontificate. Acutis drew a fanbase of 80,000 to the Vatican.

“Sometimes we portray [saints] as great figures, forgetting that for them it all began when, while still young, they said ‘yes’ to God and gave themselves to him completely, keeping nothing for themselves,” Leo said in his homily .

Acutis was declared venerable by former Pope Francis in 2018, a recognition that he had lived a life of “ heroic virtue .” At that point, Acutis had been entombed in Assisi for over 10 years. Assisi is known for its association with St. Francis de Assisi, from whom the late pope took his nam

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