St. Carlo Acutis

Who they were

Carlo was a Milanese teenager with a computer, a PlayStation, and an entirely ordinary life of school, football, and arguing with his parents. He evangelized his own mother rather than the other way round, as she has said plainly.

Two things set him apart. He took the Eucharist with total seriousness, attending daily Mass from the age of seven, and his phrase the Eucharist is my highway to heaven is the one on the holy cards. And he used his actual skills in its service, teaching himself web development and building, at eleven and twelve, a database and virtual exhibition of the Church's documented Eucharistic miracles that has since toured thousands of parishes on every continent. He also rationed his own gaming to an hour a week, on the theory that he, not the console, should hold the controller. Leukemia took him in October 2006, offered, he said, for the pope and the Church. He was canonized in September 2025, the first millennial saint, and his body rests in Assisi in jeans and trainers.

Why people turn to St. Carlo Acutis

Teenagers and everyone who lives half online. He is the proof that holiness runs on current hardware. Parents of screen age children have adopted him hard, for obvious reasons.

How to ask their intercession

Ask him directly and as a peer, which is the whole novelty and the whole point. And consider his one hour rule: put the phone down when this rosary is finished.