Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia at age 15 in 2006, is already referred to as "God's influencer" and the "patron saint of the internet" for his work cataloguing Eucharistic miracles around the world — and soon it will be official.

Vatican News announced that Pope Francis and a group of cardinals approved Acutis for canonisation at a meeting at the Vatican on Monday.

It says he will likely be proclaimed a saint at some point in 2025, during the church's jubilee year. It is somewhat of a record as Actutis was only recently beatified, and it usually takes a few centuries and several miracles to pull it off.  These miracles have to be investigated, subjected to church research, lost, forgotten, found again, and finally, confirmed.

However, the Church has been relatively quick lately.

Prospective candidates for sainthood typically need to have two miracles attributed to them before they can be canonised. The latest miracle attributed to Acutis relates to the reported healing of a girl from Costa Rica who had suffered head trauma after falling from her bicycle in Florence, Italy, where she was studying. Her mother said she prayed for her daughter’s recovery at the tomb of Acutis in Assisi.

Acutis was beatified and declared “blessed” after his first miracle in 2020 when he reportedly healed a Brazilian boy who had a birth defect in his pancreas that left him unable to eat food normally.

Oddly, given his new patron saint of the internet status, there have been no recorded cases of him getting a router back online before the deadline despite prayers.

Acutis taught himself programming early and created websites with a spiritual focus, including a database of miracles. Acutis had a few favourite games so that makes Halo, Super Mario, and Pokémon the tools of saints. However, his mum says he limited himself to an hour a week.