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The saints

St. Carlo Acutis

A teenage coder in sneakers who built a website about Eucharistic miracles, and called the Eucharist his highway to heaven.

Feast: 12 October (memorial kept where approved; not on the universal calendar) · 1991 to 2006 · The modern era · London, Milan and Assisi

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Painted carving of Carlo Acutis with a halo, holding a monstrance, in a church memorial.

AndyScott, 2023. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Milan, Italy, the early 2000s

Carlo was an ordinary Italian kid who loved video games, his dogs and computers.1

He also went to Mass every day he could, from his First Communion on.1

He taught himself to code and built a website cataloguing Eucharistic miracles around the world.

Patronage No official patronage we can cite yet. Canonized in 2025, he has no official patronage yet; his feast is kept where his cause is celebrated.

01St. Carlo Acutis

The highway to heaven

He called the Eucharist his highway to heaven, and he gave his pocket money to the homeless he met on his way to school.1

He limited his own video game time so it wouldn’t take over.1

02St. Carlo Acutis

Fifteen years

In 2006 he was diagnosed with leukemia and died within days, at fifteen.1

He offered his suffering for the pope and the Church, and Pope Leo XIV canonized him in 2025.2

Live it this week

Put a limit on your screen

Carlo loved games and chose to limit them. Set a real daily screen-time limit on your phone this week, and spend the minutes you get back with Jesus or with your family.

Notes

How we know · 2 sources for this page
  1. Franciscan Media, Saint of the Day: “Saint Carlo Acutis”. franciscanmedia.org. franciscanmedia.org
  2. Vatican News: “Pope: Saints call us to look to God, make masterpieces of our lives”. vaticannews.va. vaticannews.va

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