London-born teenager to become Catholic Church's first millennial saint - the patron saint of the internet!, Carlo Acutis, who was born in 1991 and died of leukaemia aged 15, has been suggested as a patron saint of the internet owing to his passion for computer programming and building websites. - reddit spergs out because..... because religion bad ok?

Aside from a few visits to a daycare centre, most of Acutis' early care came from nannies.[15] At one such visit to a daycare centre, he began to be bullied by other children.[10] He was now under the care of a Polish nanny who thought Acutis was "too good" and she tried to teach him to set boundaries so that the other children would not take his toys.[10] He once responded to her that "Jesus would not be happy if I lost my temper."[10]

In the summer, Acutis was sent to stay with his mother's parents in Centola.[11] After spending the day at the beach, he would join a number of older women in the local parish church to pray the rosary.

Outside school, he did volunteer work with the homeless and destitute. He also liked films, comic editing, and playing video games, including series such as Halo, Super Mario, and Pokémon.[25] He struggled with his weight, often overindulging in a popular chocolate and nut sandwich spread, Nutella.[26] As a sacrifice, he would give up sweets, nutella or his favourite films, like the children of Fatima.[27] He admired the poverty as practiced by members of the Franciscan order and sought to emulate it.[28]

Acutis was a lover of nature.[29] His father bought him a device to pick up litter while hiking so that he would not fill his pockets with rubbish and cast off cigarette butts.[29] While at the beach, he used an inflatable boat, snorkel, and fins to retrieve rubbish in the ocean.[30] He also became very angry when he encountered young people who trod on lizards.[30] An animal lover, he had two cats, four dogs, and fish at home, and asked his parents to take in every stray animal he found.[30]

On the social side, Acutis would worry about friends of his whose parents were going through separation and divorce and would invite them to his home to support them.[31] He defended peers at school when they were bullied by other pupils.[31] When he happened on two school friends fighting, he would later invite them back to his house after school to help them reconcile.[32] He also spoke up for girls who were wolf whistled or harassed, and reproached boys doing so.[33]

One year when his grandparents gave him several games for his birthday, Acutis visited the Capuchin friars in Milan to donate them for children who had no toys.[34] In the evenings, Acutis would ask his grandmother to make a snack for a man who begged in the park near their house.[34] When he dropped it off, Acutis would also give the beggar some of his pocket money to buy coffee in the morning

His father once proposed that the family visit the Holy Land, but Acutis responded that he would rather stay in Milan: "Why go to where Jesus was 2,000 years ago, whereas He is here now?"[62] He preferred instead to make a pilgrimage to each of the churches in Milan.[31] He attended the Rimini Meeting in 2002 with his parents

The hospital chaplain was called in and performed the anointing of the sick.[75] When a nurse came in to care for him, he asked her not to wake his parents as they were already very tired and he did not want to worry them more.[75]

Acutis offered his suffering both for Pope Benedict XVI and for the Catholic Church, saying: "I offer to the Lord the sufferings that I will have to undergo for the Pope and for the Church."[76][72] The doctors treating his final illness had asked him if he was in great pain, a question to which he responded that "there are people who suffer much more than me".[4][75] His final words to his mother were:

Mom, don't be afraid. Since Jesus became a man, death has become the passage towards life, and we don't need to flee it. Let us prepare ourselves to experience something extraordinary in the eternal life.

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