In each generation, heroes of the Faith, whom the Church recognizes as saints, emerge. There aremany characteristics that they have in common, but none thus far have used cell phones, playedPlayStation video games, or searched for information on Google.

That is about to change.

A young computer geek named Carlo Acutis, who created a website cataloguing every reported Eucharistic miracle in the world and died of leukemia a year later at age fifteen, wasbeatified in November 2019, after a healing miracle in Brazil was attributed to his intercession.Since the beatification ceremony one year later, solemn crowds have been filing past the exposedrelics of the blessed youth in Assisis Church of Santa Maria Maggiore.

Carlo is a sign of contradiction in the modern world who serves as a heroic model for todaysyoung peoplea teenager who programmed computers and enjoyed films and comics yet livedas an authentic and sincere disciple of Christ. In these pages, youll discover how he embracedthe Faith as a boy and developed the virtues necessary to live a Christ-centered life in a secularsociety, how he overcame the vices that plagued him, and how he gracefully dealt withheartaches he could not divulge even to his parents.

When he developed leukemia, he offered his suffering both for Pope Benedict XVI and for theCatholic Church, saying: I offer all the suffering I will have to undergo for the Lord, for thePope, and the Church. In this surprising and inspiring book, youll also learn:

• How Carlo became holy, in only a few short years
• The young mans unusual loneliness and how he dealt with it
• His strategy for resisting peer pressure
• How he had fun without losing control and learned to resist gluttony
• How he interacted with teen girls who became his friends
• Why his explanations about the Mass are used in todays catechism classes in Italy
• How he dealt with friends who were sexually promiscuous and what he told them
• How he responded to the shocking news that he was dying (which happened two weekslater)
• His remarkable Eucharistic Miracles Exhibitionmade possible by his computerskillsthat is now touring churches all over Europe

216pages. Paperback.