Age, Biography, and Wiki
Carlo Acutis was born on May 3, 1991, in London, England, and died at age 15 on October 12, 2006, in Monza, Italy. He is primarily remembered as a British-born Italian teenager with a deep Catholic faith and a talent for web design. His parents, Andrea and Antonia, were not especially religious before his birth but eventually became inspired by his own devotion. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Milan. Carlo is well known for his website documenting Eucharistic miracles and approved Marian apparitions, and for his daily attendance at Mass after making his First Communion at age seven. He was beatified by Pope Francis in 2020 and is on the path to sainthood, making him a unique figure as potentially the first canonized millennial. His life and work are detailed on his Wikipedia page, which is available in dozens of languages.
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| Date of Birth | 3 May 1991 |
| Age | 34 Years |
| Birth Place | London, England |
| Horoscope | Taurus |
| Country | England |
| Date of death | 12 October, 2006 |
| Died Place | Monza, Italy |
Height, Weight & Measurements
There is no official public record of Carlo Acutis’s height or weight. His biography does note that he struggled with weight management as a child, choosing to give up sweets and favorite movies as personal sacrifices. However, specific measurements such as height or body statistics are not documented in available sources.
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Dating & Relationship Status
Carlo Acutis is not known to have had any romantic relationships. As a devout Catholic teenager who focused on prayer, charity, and web design, his public image and legacy center on his faith and service rather than personal relationships. He died at the age of 15, before reaching adulthood.
His father's family worked in the Italian insurance industry and his mother's ran a publishing company. His baptism took place on 18 May 1991 in the Church of Our Lady of Dolours, Chelsea. His paternal grandfather, Carlo, was his godfather; and his maternal grandmother, Luana, was his godmother. Neither of his parents were religious.
They worked in family businesses and he was cared for by an Irish nanny. Aside from a few visits to a daycare centre, most of Acutis's early care came from nannies. During one daycare visit, he was bullied by other children. A Polish nanny, who thought he was too nice, tried to teach him to set boundaries so that other children would not take his toys. He replied: "Jesus would not be happy if I lost my temper." In the summer, Acutis would stay with his mother's parents in Centola. After spending the day at the beach, he would join a number of older women in the local parish church to pray the rosary. His family also owned a boat at Santa Margherita Ligure, near the Basilica of St. Margaret of Antiochia.
Acutis attended his first primary school in September 1997, the San Carlo Institute in Milan; but as the school was at a distance from their home, three months later he transferred to the Marcelline Tommaseo Institute, run by the Sisters of St. Marcellina. During his walks to school, he took particular interest in the foreign caretakers of the different homes along his route; learning their names and stopping to greet them personally each morning. Upon completing middle school, Acutis went on to the Jesuit Instituto Leone XIII high school. Although he was an average student, he liked to read and pursued other academic areas independently, including computer science and teaching himself the saxophone. Acutis also had a tutor who helped him with his homework and followed him to church. Acutis loved playing video games such as Halo, Mario, and Pokémon, although his mother claims he limited himself to just one hour of gaming a week to avoid addiction.
Acutis's mother Antonia grew up in a secular family. She testified that her son's faith and his insistent questions brought her back to the faith. The Acutis family employed a Brahmin immigrant from Mauritius, Rajesh Mohur, to work in their household. He and Acutis became friends. In time, after speaking with Acutis about Christianity, Mohur asked to be baptized. A friend of Mohur's, Seeven Kistnen, also converted and was baptized after meeting with Acutis and hearing him speak about the faith. Mohur's mother, visiting from Mauritius, attended Mass with Mohur and Acutis, who talked with her at length afterwards, and she too asked to be baptized.
"Carlo was a young man who was exceptionally transparent. He really wanted to progress in loving his parents, God, his classmates, and those who loved him less. He wanted to apply himself in his studies to educate himself in his catechism class as well as in school and computer science."
In March 2025, The Economist published an article stating that Acutis' childhood best friend did not remember him as a "very pious boy", nor did he even know that Carlo was religious. His schoolmates testified that he was kind, but did not remember him to be publicly devout although they did note that he expressed religious viewpoints at times. These accounts were disputed by Carlo's mother, Antonia.
On 1 October 2006, Acutis developed an inflammation of the throat. His parents took him to a doctor who diagnosed parotitis and dehydration, which a second doctor, a family friend, confirmed. A few days later, Acutis's pain worsened and he had blood in his urine. By Sunday, 8 October, Acutis was too weak to get out of bed to go to Mass. Acutis was taken to a clinic that specialized in blood diseases and was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukaemia. He was given little chance of recovery. He was rushed to intensive care and put on a ventilator. After a sleepless night, Acutis was transferred to San Gerardo Hospital north of Milan, one of only three hospitals in Italy equipped to treat his condition.
The hospital staff called in their chaplain and he performed the anointing of the sick. When a nurse came in to care for Acutis, Acutis asked her not to wake his parents since they were already very tired and he did not want to worry them more. 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." The doctors treating his final illness had asked him if he was in great pain, to which he replied, "There are people who suffer much more than me". His final words to his mother were:
Acutis fell into a coma and was taken to the intensive care unit where he underwent a blood-cleansing treatment. After a cerebral haemorrhage, he was pronounced brain-dead on 11 October, aged 15. Acutis died the next day, 12 October 2006, at 6:45p.m. His parents brought his body home, where people came for four days to pay their last respects. A crowd of strangers attended his funeral, including young people who had abandoned the Church and those who returned for a memorial Mass three months later.
In 2020 the Catholic Church recognised the curing of a child's pancreatic disease as a miracle attributed to Acutis's intercession. Following this, Acutis's mother told the press that her son had appeared to her in dreams saying that he would be not only beatified but also canonized a saint in the future. A website was created for his canonization cause. Others were created for educators, young people, and prayer groups, and for each of the four exhibitions that he inspired. Due to his enjoyment of video games in life, Acutis has been described as the "first gamer saint".
On 14 November 2019, the Vatican's Medical Council of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints expressed a positive opinion about a miracle in Brazil attributed to Acutis's intercession. Beforehand, she had prayed a novena asking for the teenager Acutis's intercession. During the service, Mattheus had asked that he should not "throw up as much". Immediately following the service, he told his mother that he felt healed and asked for solid food when he came home. Until then, he had been on an all-liquid diet. After a detailed investigation, Pope Francis confirmed the miracle's authenticity in a decree on 21 February 2020, leading to Acutis's beatification.
On 23 May 2024, Pope Francis recognized a second miracle attributed to the intercession of Acutis. The miracle attributed to his intercession occurred in 2022, when a Costa Rican woman named Valeria had fallen off her bike and suffered a brain haemorrhage, with doctors giving her a low chance of survival. Valeria's mother, Lilliana, prayed for the intercession of Acutis and visited his tomb. The same day, Valeria began to breathe independently again and was able to walk the next day with all evidence of the haemorrhage having disappeared.
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Net Worth
Carlo Acutis is often called “God’s Influencer” and “the patron saint of the Internet” for his use of digital tools to spread the Catholic faith. While he himself did not use modern social networks (which were not prominent during his lifetime), his website, launched in 2004, was a pioneering use of the internet for religious education. His digital legacy continues to inspire, and official Catholic media actively promote his story through platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube today.
Education
Carlo Acutis attended school in Milan, where he stood out for his intelligence and computer skills. He learned web programming on his own and used these talents to create educational websites about Eucharistic miracles and Marian apparitions. His academic achievements are less documented than his technological and spiritual contributions, but he is remembered as a bright student who balanced faith, charity, and technology.
When Acutis was 12 years old, he became a catechist in his parish, Santa Maria Segreta. At the time, the Italian catechetical structure typically relied on young team leaders in youth groups, as contrasted with adults, to deliver religious education to their peers. Acutis's parish priest said of him that:
People around Acutis considered him a "computer geek" due to his passion for and skill with computers and the internet. He was skilled in Java as well as C++ and often helped others with technical issues. When he was 14, his parish priest asked him to create a webpage for his parish, Santa Maria Segreta in Milan. After this, a priest at his high school asked him to create a website to promote volunteering. For this work, he won a national competition called Sarai volontario (Italian, "You will be a volunteer").
Acutis created a website dedicated to cataloguing each reported Eucharistic miracle in the world and maintaining a list of the approved Marian apparitions of the Catholic Church. Acutis launched the website in 2004 and worked on it for two and a half years, involving his entire family in the project. It was unveiled on 4 October 2006, the Feast of St. Francis, only days before his death. Because he was hospitalized, Acutis was not able to attend the debut of his exhibition at Rome's Church of San Carlo Borromeo. The exhibition was also presented at his high school, the Leo XIII Institute.
