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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Ap Correspondent

Pope confirms when millennial saint Carlo Acutis will be canonised

People pray in front of the body of Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia and beatified in 2020, in the Santa Maria Maggiore church in Assisi, Italy - (AP)

Pope Leo XIV has announced that Carlo Acutis, the Catholic Church's first millennial saint, will be canonised on 7 September.

The announcement was made during a consistory, a meeting of cardinals convened to set the dates for the canonisation of several new saints.

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