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Pope Francis is gearing up for the first millennial saint, a web developer known as 'God's influencer' (ca.news.yahoo.com)

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Carlo Acutis, a teenage website developer, was attributed a second miracle by Pope Francis, advancing his path to becoming the first millennial saint.

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[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Think about how weird that is for a minute. This guy wasn't a saint when people were praying to him. So do Catholics just go around praying to randos until 3 people pray to the same rando and then are like "aha! a saint!" ?

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They're not exactly randos. But yup, that's the gist of it.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Sorry I'm not a Catholic. What's the intermediate step between rando and saint?

[–] cjoll4@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Influencer, apparently

[–] gerbler@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As far as I recall, you need to perform 3 miracles that have to be verified (yes, I know lmao) by the Catholic church in order to be canonized (dubbed a saint).

Often times these aren't major miracles with significant outcomes but picture a statue crying or the image of the person appearing on a slice of toast or whatever.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah but 2 of this guy's 3 were healing people that prayed to him. Which is what spawned my question: so Catholics pray to non-saints?

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

State of bliss