Carlo Acutis, the late computer-programming Italian teenager known as “God’s Influencer,” will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint.

Pope Francis and the College of Cardinals approved Acutis’s canonization on Monday, the Vatican News announced. He will likely be proclaimed a saint during the 2025 Jubilee.

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