London’s teenage saint - the Sunday Story
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
15-year-old Carlo Acutis will become the first millennial saint today, after the Catholic Church posthumously attributed two miracles to him. So who was this extraordinary boy and how does the church 'fact' check a miracle?
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| 1:29.1 | In the center of Italy, at the heart of the Vatican's city state, there's a secretive group that meets sporadically to perform a very unusual task. |
| 1:33.8 | So the Vatican has a team called the Dicastry for the Causes of Saints. |
| 1:38.6 | It was founded in the late 16th century, and it's a group of people led by a senior priest, |
| 1:43.7 | and they go and investigate. They |
| 1:46.2 | verify whether or not they deem something to be a true miracle, a true act of God. |
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