Yes! You read it, right peeps, the internet will be having its patron saint in the person of an Italian millennial named Carlo Acutis.

The Vatican is on the run to achieve the sainthood for Acutis as it implies a great act in the modern-day world. 

Carlo Acutis who have died in 2006 due to leukemia was credited by the Vatican with the miraculous healing of a 6-year-old Brazilian boy who inexplicably recovered in 2013 from a congenital deformation of the pancreas, the Los Angeles Times reported. On the boy’s behalf, a priest prayed to Carlo for the recovery.

“The boy was vomiting and risked dying. Then, on the third day of prayers, he started eating,” said Antonia Salzano, Carlo’s mother, in an article published by the LA Times.

“We get news of miracles attributed to Carlo all the time,” said Salzano, “One woman was cured of her cancer after attending his funeral, and I heard of two more a few days ago.”

She added that she could not fathom how Carlo’s fame had spread since his death. “It’s a mystery. I sense the finger of God,” she said. “Losing your son is the most terrible thing, but we are happy he is helping people discover their faith.”

Acutis was dubbed as a computer whiz who utilized his skills for building a website in 2005 that documents and catalogs Eucharistic miracles around the world after he taught himself how to program using their family’s old computer.

When he learned that he contracted leukemia, he vowed to a promise that he will offer all his sufferings and he will suffer for the Lord, for the Pope, and the Church.

Carlo became deeply religious during his middle-class childhood in Milan and would donate his pocket money to the city’s poor residents. He was also known for defending the rights of the disabled and helping the homeless.

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the head of the Vatican’s saint-making department, said that Carlo Acutis, an Italian schoolboy who helped spread Roman Catholic teaching online before he died of leukemia in 2006, is the perfect candidate to become the protector of web surfers.

“That’s my hope — he would be an ideal example for all young people,” the cardinal added.

Pope Francis paid tribute to the teenager, declaring that his use of the internet to “communicate values and beauty” was the perfect antidote to the dangers of social media.

In a document he wrote after a synod on youth, the pope quoted a phrase coined by Carlo warning other youngsters not to lose their individuality on the internet: “Everyone is born an original, but many die like photocopies.”

Carlo Acutis’ beatification, the first step toward sainthood, was triggered when Catholics have started to pray to him and when the pope attributed a miracle to the teen.

The beatification ceremony will be held on October 10 in the central Italian city of Assisi (of St. Francis fame).

The move has been seeing as an important milestone for the Vatican, signifying that there is a place for technology in the growth of Catholic faith for the next generation of Catholics.