Italian teenage computer ace set to become first millennial generation saint

A picture of Carlo Acutis is displayed during his beatification ceremony in 2020 (Gregorio Borgia/AP)

Pope Francis paved the way for the canonisation of the first saint of the millennial generation on Thursday, attributing a second miracle to a 15-year-old Italian computer wizard who died of leukemia in 2006.

Carlo Acutis, born on May 3, 1991, in London and then moved with his Italian parents to Milan as a child, was the youngest contemporary person to be beatified by Francis in Assisi in 2020.