Italian teenage computer wizard set to become the first saint of the Millennial generation
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Pope Francis has paved the way for the canonization of the first saint of the millennial generation, attributing a second miracle to a 15-year-old Italian computer whiz who died of leukemia in 2006.

Pope Francis paved the way for the canonization of the first saint of the millennial generation on Thursday, attributing a second miracle to a 15-year-old Italian computer whiz who died of leukemia in 2006.

Carlo Acutis, born on May 3, 1991, in London and then moved with his Italian parents to Milan as a child, was the youngest contemporary person to be beatified by Francis in Assisi in 2020.

Acutis, who died of acute leukemia on Oct. 12, 2006, was put on the road to sainthood after Pope Francis approved the first miracle attributed to him: The healing of a 7-year-old Brazilian boy from a rare pancreatic disorder after coming into contact with an Acutis’ relic, a piece of one of his T-shirts.

According to Vatican News, the second miracle recognized on Thursday is related to a woman from Costa Rica, who in July 2022 made a pilgrimage to Acutis’ tomb in Assisi to pray for the healing of her daughter, who had suffered severe head trauma after falling from her bicycle. The young woman started showing signs of recovery immediately after her mother’s plea.

so the vatican has all of this kids clothes preserved as relics and they cut off pieces of his t-shirts so they can mail them to cancer patients. just imagining like, spongebob, batman, metallica t-shirts being guarded as holy relics in rome for centuries to come.

  • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.netEnglish
    77·
    6 个月前

    has all of this kids clothes preserved as relics and they cut off pieces of his t-shirts so they can mail them to cancer patients

    whatever happened to chopping off some bones as relics this is tacky as fuck

  • ElGosso [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    51·
    6 个月前

    Why were people praying at his tomb when he wasn’t a saint yet? Why did he have a tomb and not just a grave? Lots of weird shit happening here.

    Found this on his wikipedia page:

    Carlo Acutis was born in London, England, on 3 May 1991, to Andrea Acutis and Antonia Salzano, members of wealthy Italian families.[4][6][7][8] The Acutis family had a prominent position in the Italian insurance industry.[9] The Salzanos ran a publishing company.[10] Acutis’ maternal great-grandmother was born in the United States and came from a family of landowners in New York.[11]

    So this kid’s rich parents made a hefty donation to the church and now he’s a saint? Is that how it works?

  • Palacegalleryratio [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    521·
    6 个月前

    Catholicism is a fake ass religion. How can anyone take this shit seriously?!

    Also if I know anything about 15 yr old boys who are internet users, it’s that the real relic shouldn’t be one of his t shirts, it should be the crusty sock down the back of his wash basket.

      • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        12·
        6 个月前

        Polytheists are the only real religious people. “Oh yeah our Gods are a bunch of inbred weirdos who live on a Mountain and rule us by arbitrary whims so it totally makes sense that we have to burn horse foreskins for them cuz that’s just some weird shit they’re into, also those people like 20 miles away who have their own pantheon of inbred weirdos are totally legit and if enough of us fuck enough of them we’ll just meld the two inbred weirdo families together.”

        Everyone else is trying to nerd there way into thinking there’s some rational benevolent AI controlling everything. Monotheists are the OG scifi nerds.

    • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      50·
      6 个月前

      There are very few miracles that happened in the lives of saints. The point of the whole 2 miracles to canonize a saint is that once you die, people who think you went to heaven pray for your intercession. If you really are in heaven then you’d ask God to make the miracles happen. Then the idea is that if a miracle happens, it was because of the saint’s intercession. But this only works if people are ONLY praying for the purported saint’s intercession.

      It’s kinda a weird system, I’ve gone to some Masses hosted by an order of nuns that was founded by a nun who is now in the process of being beatified. They asked the attendees to pray for her intercession, but you could ONLY pray for her intercession, no one else’s, or else we don’t know who interceded.

    • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      31·
      6 个月前

      The miracles have nothing to do with the internet, but Carlo was a programmer, he made a website for his local church and he was unfortunely a gamer.

      • edge [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        6 个月前

        It seems weird to call someone the patron saint of something if their saintly status has nothing to do with that thing.

        • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          1·
          6 个月前

          I believe it’s more about the person themselves than the miracles. For example, Joseph (Jesus’ legal father not the Egyptian dude) worked as a carpenter for most of his life. That’s why they decided to give him the title of patron saint of workers and fatherhood. In some countries, the title is related to the place where the person lived or was born.

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    39·
    6 个月前

    I love how god won’t directly intervene to help you because of muh free will. But he will select one (1) random suffering individual in a random poor village and alleviate one (1) piece of suffering. Very epic

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      22·
      6 个月前

      motherfuckers will sincerely say with zero self awareness that God “saved them” because they survived like a natural disaster or mass shooting where everyone else died.

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    37·
    6 个月前

    Blasphemous apropriation. Internet is the first true manifestation of Machine God’s will to His chosen people and His avatar, therefore the first coming of Omnissiah.

  • Big_Bob [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    6 个月前

    I can confirm. I once touched his dakimakura and no woman has ever bothered me again. Miracles are real, folks. Praise jesus!

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    20·
    6 个月前

    Okay so I’m all for the idea that you only get declared a saint after death. That makes sense to me. And I’m fine with determining posthumously that things they did were in fact miracles.

    What I’m not cool with is the miracles happening posthumously. I feel like you should have to perform the miracles while alive, it has to be a semi-conscious act. You can’t just say “Oh my blindness was healed and it’s because of a random dead Italian kid”