London-born Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia in 2006 at the age of 15, was canonised in a solemn ceremony in St Peter's Square, with his family watching on.
“He was able to combine his everyday life -- school, football and his passion for IT and computers -- with an unshakeable faith,“ said Filippo Bellaviti, 17.
Pier Giorgio Frassati, an Italian mountaineering enthusiast who died of polio aged 24 in 1925, was also made a saint on Sunday.
“Saints Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis are an invitation to all of us, especially young people, not to squander our lives, but to direct them upwards and make them masterpieces,“ Pope Leo said in his homily.
Modern saint
His preserved body, which lies in a glass-walled tomb in the Italian town of Assisi, is starkly modern, dressed in jeans and a pair of Nike trainers.
She attended the canonisation mass with her family, including the teen's two siblings born after his death. His brother Michele gave a reading.
Initially set for April but postponed following the death of Pope Francis, Sunday's canonisation was the first for US-born Pope Leo.
Among the crowd was Eleanor Hauser, 15, on a school trip to Italy from the US state of North Carolina. She said she had been told about Acutis by her Catholic grandmother.
'Exemplary life'
He grew up in the northern city of Milan, where he attended mass daily and had a reputation for kindness to bullied children and homeless people, bringing the latter food and sleeping bags.
Canonisation is the result of a long and meticulous process, involving an investigation by the Vatican and specialists who assess whether the obligatory two miracles have taken place.
The second was the recovery of a Costa Rican student seriously injured in an accident.
Frassati, who was also raised to sainthood Sunday, was held up by the Church as a model of charity.
The Vatican recognised the necessary second miracle to put him on the path to sainthood in 2024, with the unexplained healing of a young American man in a coma - AFP
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