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Catholic church canonises its first gamer saint, and one of his favourite games was Halo (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 58 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Candidates for sainthood require two distinct miracles attributed to them: Acutis was first beatified in 2020 after a Brazilian boy with a pancreatic defect was cured, following his mother's prayers to Acutis to help her son. The second miracle involves the reported healing of a Costa Rican girl who suffered a serious head injury after falling off her bike in Florence: her mother prayed for the girl's recovery at Acutis' tomb in Assisi, and her daughter made a full recovery.

Quite, uh, remarkable "miracles".

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    wait isn't it the mom who should be a saint then?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Nah, basically, the logic is that since he allegedly healed her, that he is apparently alive in heaven and no longer in purgatory. Thus becoming a saint as his salvation has been "proven"

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Feels like we could get two miracles attributed to that famous painter, just for shit & giggles, having a Saint Hitler would be funny (if not for the distress caused to the survivors). Other satins have a much lower kill ratios (up to a few thousand only??).

    (And ofc /s, choosing saints is a completely political process addressing Church's needs.)

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