British teenager Carlo Acutis has been pronounced a saint by Pope Leo in a ceremony attended by thousands of worshippers.

Pope Leo declared "digital disciple" Acutis a saint today in his first canonisation ceremony, alongside another popular Italian, Pier Giorgio Frassati. The open-air Mass in St. Peter’s Square was attended by tens of thousands of people, many of them millennials and couples with young children. Both ceremonies had been scheduled for earlier this year but were postponed following the death in April of Pope Francis.

The Vatican said 36 cardinals, 270 bishops and hundreds of priests had signed up to celebrate the Mass along with Leo in a sign of the saints’ enormous appeal to the hierarchy and ordinary faithful alike.

The teen, who was born in London but grew up in Mil

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