He also created an online database of miracles. Pope Francis, 87, has canonised 912 people since he assumed the papacy in 2013, with the most recent birth date previously being 1926.

In order to move to the final stage of canonisation, a second attributed miracle had to be verified and approved. In 2016, she was canonised and became known as Saint Mother Teresa.

Carlo Acutis died in 2006, at the age of 15, meaning he would be the first millennial - a person born in the early 1980s to late 1990s - to be canonised. It follows Pope Francis attributing a ...

The 'techie' teen - born in 1991 to an Italian mother and half Italian, half English father - will be canonised alongside activist Piero Giorgio Frassati. The Pope said: 'I want to say that next ...

He is now set to become the 913th person to be canonised by Pope Francis and the first who was born after 1926. When two miracles are attributed to a deceased person and approved by the pope ...

“Ukrainian Fascist Church has canonised Stepan Bandera as a saint. Not even Croatian revisionists were allowed to go this far. Granted, there are a few questionable cannonisations in the Serbian ...

Worshippers have flocked to a medieval town in Italy to view the preserved body of a UK-born teenager before he's canonised as the "first millennial saint". The Pope granted approval for his ...

A second miracle is required after beatification before the person can be canonised. This body of evidence, or positio, usually of more than 1000 pages, is passed to the Vatican’s Dicastery for ...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 1 - Carlo Acutis, a student from Lombardy who died from leukaemia at the age of 15 in 2006 and became a model of Christian life for many young believers as well as a sort of ...

Carlo Acutis printed on a t-shirt in a souvenir shop in Assisi, where his body is on display (Picture: AFP or licensors) The canonisation of a British Italian teenager as the first millennial ...

A celebration of the memory of Teresa has been scheduled for September 5, 2016 as part of the Jubilee programme of events. Fisichella said she would be canonised the day before, on September 4. A ...