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Blessed Carlo Acutis; first Saint in jeans, T-shirt and a computer Wizard – By Anton Abeyesekera “A Boy of the internet age and a model of holiness of the digital age” – Pope Francis “First Saint dressed in Jeans, Sneakers and a sweater” Source:Dailymirror Image of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006 of leukemia, is unveiled during his beatification ceremony celebrated by Cardinal Agostino Vallini in the St. Francis Basilica in Italy (AFP) “Today we see him again in his mortal body. A body that has passed in the years of burial through the normal process of decay, which is the legacy of the human condition after sin has removed it from God, the source of life. But this mortal body is destined for resurrection”. Carlo who was conferred the title Blessed on October 10 was a victim of the dreaded disease leukemia at the age of 15 and ...