A British-born teenager who created a website which catalogued Eucharistic miracles could be made 'patron saint of the internet' by the Catholic church.

Carlo Acutis, 15, who tragically passed away from leukaemia in 2006, created The Eucharistic Miracles of the World in the months leading up to his death.

Born to Italian parents in London in 1991, the youngster is said to have enjoyed researching different Eucharistic miracles for the site.

Carlo Acutis, 15, passed away from leukaemia in 2006. In the months leading up to his death he created The Eucharistic Miracles of the World website

Carlo attended daily mass, making weekly confessions and often praying the rosary (left). He moved to Milan when an infant, and while there is said to have - alongside his passion for web development - helped the homeless and stood up for bullied classmates

Images taken from the www.miracolieucaristici.org website

A painting of Carlo with Jesus on the www.miracolieucaristici.org website

And it now includes hundreds of detailed descriptions of miracles said to have occurred around the world.

It claims that it documents divine interventions that are 'aimed at confirming faith in the real presence of the body and blood of the Lord in the Eucharist'.

And describes miracles as having a power similar to bread turning into the body of Christ and wine turning into his blood, as written in Christian doctrine.

What are the five steps to becoming a saint? Five-year wait: Five years usually needs to have passed after someone's death for the process to begin. This allows for a period of reflection on the case. Servant of God: The bishop of the diocese where the person has died investigates whether their life was holy enough to be deemed a 'servant of God'. Life of heroic virtue: The Congregation for the Causes of Saints looks at the case. If they approve it is passed onto the Pope, who declares the subject a person of 'heroic virtue'. Beatification: A miracle needs to happen to a person who has prayed to the person in question. Canonisation: A second miracle is attributed to the person who has been beatified. Advertisement

The site orders the miracles according to geographical location, and also includes 'miraculous communions' at the bottom'.

It quotes Carlo as saying 'my life plan is to always be connected to Jesus' before going on to explain how he created the site.

The site has been continually developed since the teenager's death, and brought him a large religious following.

It also attributes to Carlo the following words: 'Our destination must be what is infinite, not what is finite. Infinity is our homeland. We have been expected in Heaven since time immemorial'.

Carlo moved to Milan when an infant, and while there is said to have - alongside his passion for web development - helped the homeless and stood up for bullied classmates.

The youngster also attended daily mass, making weekly confessions and often praying the rosary.

His faith was so devout that in July last year Pope Francis declared him venerable, a move which brought him closer to canonisation.

Speaking to The Times, his mother Antonia Salzano described how he would take food and sleeping bags to rough sleepers in Milan.

She said: 'Sometimes beautiful [saints] are all very old and used to live in a very different world so young people don't feel so close to them.

'Carlo was young and handsome and always smiling and was a computer genius and would play on his PlayStation and Game Boy.'

Carlo was buried at the cemetery in Assisi in accordance with his wishes. He was in July last year made venerable by Pope Francis

The process to make Carlo a saint is a long one, as the church must find and attribute at least two miracles to him before moving forward.

His body was recently exhumed as part of the process of investigation for canonisation, with Father Marcelo Tenorio, a priest of São Paulo, Brazil, announcing that the body had been found incorrupt.

The priest later deleted the Facebook post announcing this, and clarified that the body had simply been found in 'a good state of repair'.

An incorrupt body is said to be a sign of holiness, although the Catholic church has said further investigation could point to natural causes of preservation.

Should he be made a saint, he will be the first in Britain since October 1970 when Pope Paul VI canonised forty martyrs from England and Wales.