Pope Francis has recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Carlo Acutis, paving the way for his rise as the Catholic Church's first millennial saint.

The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints on Thursday released a decree announcing the pontiff's decision. 

The miracle, according to the Vatican, was related to a case from Costa Rica.

A woman made a pilgrimage to Acutis's tomb in Assisi, Italy and pleaded for the recovery of her daughter who figured in an accident.

According to a report from the Vatican News, the daughter suffered from severe head trauma, and required craniotomy surgery and the removal of the right occipital bone to reduce pressure on her brain.

Doctors said she had a very low chance of survival.

The girl's mother went to Assisi on July 18, 2022. That same day, the daughter started to move and partially regained her speech.

A CAT scan showed that her hemorrhaging had disappeared. Since then, she made quick progress in her recovery, prompting her and her mother to make a thanksgiving pilgrimage to Assisi.

The internet and computer-savvy youngster, who died of leukemia in 2006 aged 15, was beatified by Pope Francis last October 10, 2020.

The pope is set to convene a consistory with his cardinals to deliberate the canonization of Acutis along with other blessed who already satisfied the requirement of a miracle for their sainthood.

‘Influencer of God’: Typical teen who was into video games is on the road to sainthood

• ‘Influencer of God’: Typical teen who was into video games is on the road to sainthood

WHO IS CARLO ACUTIS

At a young age, Acutis supposedly exhibited a special bond with God. He went to Mass daily and often spent a considerable amount of time before the tabernacle, worshipping the Blessed Sacrament.

He also had a special devotion to Mary, often praying the rosary. He also made sure to go to confession weekly.

But amid all these, he was still the typical young boy of his age. His mother said he loved playing video games, football, and being with friends and at school.

His official biography noted how his peers and adults with computer engineering degrees considered him a genius. He also had an interest in film editing, and comics editing and layout.

Using his talents, he created a website cataloging Eucharistic miracles across the world.

In an interview with EWTN, Antonia Salzano said her son used social media and the internet as an "influencer for God." She hoped that his son could teach young people today how to enjoy technologies like without falling prey to their pitfalls.

"Because he understood that they were potentially very harmful, very dangerous, he wanted to be the master of these means, not a slave," Salzano said.

Pope Francis hailed Acutis and mentioned him in his apostolic exhortation "Christus Vivit" (Christ Lives). It was the pope's message to the young people, and there he praised how the young Italian used technology to spread the gospel, and communicate values and beauty.

"Carlo was well aware that the whole apparatus of communications, advertising and social networking can be used to lull us, to make us addicted to consumerism and buying the latest thing on the market, obsessed with our free time, caught up in negativity," the pontiff said.

"Carlo didn’t fall into the trap. He saw that many young people, wanting to be different, really end up being like everyone else, running after whatever the powerful set before them with the mechanisms of consumerism and distraction."

Before Acutis died, he said he offered his sufferings to the pope and the Church. The Vatican quoted him as saying: "I am happy to die because I lived my life without wasting even a minute of it on anything unpleasing to God."