London-born boy who died aged 15 to become first millennial saint

Carlo Acutis was beatified in 2020 after a Brazilian boy recovered from a rare pancreatic disorder after contact with one of Acutis’s T-shirts. Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/AP

A London-born teenager who died of leukaemia aged 15 is to become the Catholic church’s first millennial saint.

Carlo Acutis was a computer prodigy who helped to spread Roman Catholic teaching online before his death in 2006. On Thursday, Pope Francis decreed that a second posthumous miracle has been attributed to Acutis, qualifying the teenager for canonisation.