Saint Carlo Acutis
May 3, 1991 – October 12, 2006
“To always be close to Jesus, that’s my life’s plan.”
Acutis is the first saint of the Millennial generation. Born in 1991, he was an Italian website designer and computer programmer. Like many of his peers, he enjoyed soccer, video games, detective shows, and animals.
Acutis taught himself computer programming and animation. He desired to bring people back to the Church and other sacraments and had a fervent devotion to the Eucharist and the Virgin Mary. Known as “God’s influencer,” Acutis created a website to catalog eucharistic miracles and cataloged more than 150 miracles, listed by country and date in nearly 20 different languages. This website was a helpful tool for parishes around the world and served as an example of how the internet could help spread the Gospel.
Acutis died of leukemia at the young age of 15. His mother has said that God chose Carlo to be “an example for the young people of this period in history.” Indeed, he serves as a role model for the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist and how to use the internet.