CLEVELAND, Ohio (WKBN) — Father Michael Garvin was in Rome on Sunday morning through the first “millennial saint” canonization.
Garvin, a just lately ordained priest from the Diocese of Cleveland, has additionally studied with Youngstown seminarians.
The principle purpose for Garvin’s journey was the canonization of Carlo Acutis.
Acutis, a 15-year-old laptop whiz, earned the nickname “God’s influencer,” due to his essential tech legacy: a multilingual web site documenting so-called Eucharistic miracles acknowledged by the church.
“Sainthood isn’t just for older individuals, proper? Individuals who, we predict, have all of it collectively, so to talk. Sainthood is actually for everybody. It’s for you, it’s for me, it’s for the previous, it’s for the younger,” stated Garvin, relating to Acutis’s recognition of sainthood.
In October 2006, at age 15, Acutis fell ailing with what was identified as acute leukemia.
Within the years since his dying, younger catholics have flocked by the tens of millions to his tomb.
In the course of the Sunday occasion, Pope Leo XIV additionally canonized a well-liked Italian determine, Pier Giorgia Frassati, who lived from 1901 till 1925. Frassati died of polio at 24 years previous.
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