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A saint in jeans

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September 18, 2025

Just like a typical teenager, Carlo Acutis, the newly canonized saint of the millennium, wore blue jeans and sneakers, usually paired with a t-shirt in a bright color.

- JULLIE Y. DAZA

In his right hand, he carried a video camera, the better to record miracles, especially miracles centered around the Eucharist, and in his left hand he clasped a rosary. When he was home, he would sit in front of his computer, allowing the internet to help him be a fisher of men, just like the first apostles of Christ, who used their fishing nets to catch followers.

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