FILE - A general view shows the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi within the Pope's arrival to celebrate mass at the tomb of St.
Francis in Assisi on October 3, 2020. (TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)A 15-year-old Italian computer whiz who died of leukemia in 2006 moved a step closer to possible sainthood Saturday with his beatification in the town of Assisi, where he is buried.Carlo Acutis is the youngest contemporary person to be beatified, a path taken by two Portuguese shepherd children living in the early 1900s who were proclaimed Catholic saints in 2017.At the beatification ceremony in the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, a portrait of Acutis was slowly unveiled, revealing a smiling teen in a red polo shirt, his curly dark hair.