A teenager who died of leukaemia in 2006 became the first Catholic saint of the millennial generation on Sunday, in a Vatican ceremony led by Pope Leo and attended by an estimated 70,000 young worshippers from dozens of countries.

Pope Leo canonizes Carlo Acutis as the first millennial Catholic saint in a Vatican ceremony:::: Vatican City :: Acutis, who died of leukemia in 2006, learned coding to build websites to spread his faithHis story has drawn wide attention from Catholic youth,

Carlo Acutis was a British-born Italian boy and was born in 1991. He died of Lukemia (blood cancer) in October 2006 at the age of 15. He used computer coding to spread the Catholic faith around the world.