While he wasn't devoting his time to his faith, Carlo Acutis also spent many hours pursuing his love for football as well as animals, music and computers.
The London-born computer prodigy is set to be made the Catholic Church's first ever millennial saint by Pope Francis after being credited with a series of miracles after his death.
His mother Antonia Salzano revealed that the precocious young Catholic was also keen supporter of Italian football team AC Milan but he never had the opportunity to visit the stadium before his life was cut short by leukaemia in 2006 aged 15.
One picture shared by the now mother-of-two showed the youngster smiling at the camera while sporting an AC Milan home kit from the 1990s.
Ms Salzano told MailOnline: 'He supported AC Milan but he never went to the stadium and he enjoyed going on hikes in the mountains. He liked nature and he liked animals, in a way he was very similar to St Francis of Assisi.
'He played the saxophone and he would make videos of our pet cats and
Chillwell 2.0 dog and add music from Star Wars to them.
'Carlo had many friends and was a real joker but his main hobby was computing and helping others, he was always giving food to beggars and sleeping bags to homeless.'
Carlo Acutis pictured smiling at the camera while sporting an AC Milan home kit from the 1990sCarlo (pictured) was a devout Christian when he was alive and attended daily massCarlo's mother Antonia Salzano (pictured) refers to her late son as her 'savior' as Carlo taught her more and more about his faith and credits him with her conversion into Christianity
Carlo also helped the homeless and stood up for bullied classmates at school. Pictured: Young Carlo with his dog at Christmas
15-year-old Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukaemia, lies in state in AssisiItaly's amateur league has already announced it is considering making Carlo 'protector' of its players and coaches.