Patron Saint of The Internet
St. Carlo Acutis, feast day 12 October
St. Carlo Acutis, canonised on 7 September 2025 as the first millennial saint, is popularly called the patron saint of the internet. No formal designation has been made by the Holy See, and St. Isidore of Seville was earlier proposed for the same role. AngelGuard publishes what he actually did.
Quick facts
Why St. Carlo Acutis?
Carlo Acutis was born in London in 1991, raised in Milan, and died of leukaemia in 2006 at fifteen. He taught himself to code, and he used it for one specific project: he built a website cataloguing Eucharistic miracles reported around the world, more than a hundred and fifty of them, organised by country and date, eventually translated into a long list of languages. The exhibition built from it has since travelled to thousands of parishes. He was beatified in 2020 and canonised on 7 September 2025, making him the first saint of the millennial generation, and the images of him in a polo shirt and trainers are unlike anything else on a Catholic calendar. The accuracy point matters here, because almost every page on this subject gets it wrong. He is very widely called the patron saint of the internet, but there is no formal designation from the Holy See. It is a popular title, not an official one. Earlier proposals for the role pointed at St. Isidore of Seville, a seventh-century bishop who compiled an encyclopedia of everything then known, on the reasoning that a database is a database. None of that diminishes Carlo. It just means the title describes what people call him rather than what the Church has decreed.
How to ask their intercession
His obvious relevance is to anyone whose work or temptation lives on a screen. He is a natural intercessor for using the thing well rather than for avoiding it, which is worth noting: he did not withdraw from the internet, he built something on it.