'Internet saint' Acutis to be canonised during Jubilee

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 1 - Carlo Acutis, a student from Lombardy who died from leukaemia at the age of 15 in 2006 and became a model of Christian life for many young believers as well as a sort of 'patron saint of the internet', will be canonised during next year's Roman Catholic Jubilee after being beatified on 10 October 2020 in Assisi, Pope Francis told a consistory on new canonisations Monday.
    On May 23 the pope said Acutis had qualified to become a saint after another miracle was ratified for him.
    The second miracle that has earned him his saint's spurs was the miraculous healing of a young Costa Rican girl.
    Acutis has been fast-tracked to sainthood and will be named a saint by Francis along with the Blessed Giuseppe Allamano, founder of the Consolata Missions.
    Francis told the consistory he wil also canonise Canadian nun Marie-Leonie Paradis, and Lucca nun Elena Guerra, as well as the 11 "martyrs of Damascus", Emanuele Ruiz and seven companions of the Order of Friars Minor, and Francis, Abdel Mooti and Raphael Massabki.
    The exact date has yet to be set, said the 87-year-old Argentine pontiff. (ANSA).