By skyforbes 
A 15-Year-Old Computer Whiz Who Died in 2006 Is Now Immortalized by the Catholic Church
A Body Under Glass, A Story That Refuses to Die
On September 7, 2025, Pope Leo XIV did something at once ancient and astonishingly modern: he canonized Carlo Acutis, a teenager who died in 2006 at the age of just fifteen, making him the first millennial saint in Catholic history. His incorrupt body lies in Assisi, clothed not in robes or relics but in jeans and sneakers. For nineteen years, his presence has haunted the faithful: not a marble statue, but a boy who looks eerily like any other kid on his way to school — except this one has been declared a vessel of divine grace.
A Life Cut Short, Yet Expanded Beyond Measure
Carlo Acutis was no monk cloistered in the shadows of a medieval abbey. He was a digital native before the phrase even entered our vocabulary. Born in 1991, he taught himself to code and built websites cataloguing Eucharistic miracles while his classmates obsessed over football and video games. He went to school in Milan, played Pokémon, and loved animals. But beneath this ordinary surface pulsed a fervent…