Carlo Acutis: Italian teenager could be first millennial saint

An Italian teenager who used the internet to spread his faith is on a path to becoming the Catholic Church's first millennial saint.

Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia in 2006 aged 15, has already been dubbed "the patron saint of the internet".

On Saturday, he was beatified at a ceremony in the town of Assisi and moved one step closer to sainthood.

The teenager recorded purported miracles online and helped run websites for Catholic organisations.

Acutis was placed on the path to sainthood after the Vatican ruled he had miraculously saved another boy's life.

The Church claimed he interceded from heaven in 2013 to cure a Brazilian boy who was suffering from a rare pancreatic disease.

Carlo Acutis's parents attended their son's beatification ceremony on Saturday

He is believed to be the youngest contemporary person to be beatified - the last