The stained-glass artist Michael Vincent is returning to St Aldhelm’s Roman Catholic Church in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, to carry out one of the most unusual tasks of his career.
He is taking down the glass pane with the word “Blessed” beneath his depiction of the London-born teenager Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia at the age of 15 in 2006, and replacing it with a new pane saying “Saint”. For today, Carlo, sometimes known as “God’s influencer” because of his love of games and designing websites, is being canonised by Pope Leo XIV. It will be Leo’s first saint-making since he was elected.
