Posts Tagged ‘Internet saint’

Carlo Acutis, sainthood candidate draws huge crowd

Thursday, October 22nd, 2020

The Catholic Church’s most recent candidate for sainthood is also its most modern. Lying in a glass-sided casket in jeans and a track jacket, the body of Carlo Acutis, an internet enthusiast who died in 2006 of leukemia at the age of 15, was venerated by some 41,000 visitors during a 19-day-long celebration of his Read more