Carlo Acutis it will become in the first millennial saint of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis approved this Thursday the decree that will lead to the canonization of this teenager who died at the age of 15 in 2006 and who is buried in an open tomb in the Sanctuary of the Spoliation in Assisi, central Italy. He reported it Vatican News.
Acutis was known as “God’s influencer” because he evangelized on the internet. He died from a complication of leukemia. Francis had declared him blessed in 2020.
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The Catholic Church recognizes two miracles. The first was the cure of a child in Campo Grande, in Brazil. Now, she attributed to him the miraculous healing of a Costa Rican girl after a serious accident.
Who was Carlo Acutis
The young man was born on May 3, 1991 in London, but spent his entire life in Italy. In his short life, he documented Eucharistic miracles and Marian apparitions around the world and cataloged all that information on a website.
Vatican News He said Acutis’ story “is known to many. Very young, a talent from the early days of the internet along with a big heart towards anyone, even as a child and especially towards his contemporaries, whom he helps as much as he can.”
Furthermore, he noted that he was “a precocious adolescent of intelligence and soul, as befits someone who was born an original, but will not die being a photocopy. In 2006, at the age of 15, Carlos Acutis had already opened the way for what it means to have faith, love the Church and the poor, and traffic his creativity on the Internet to leave a message – with his exposition on Eucharistic miracles – that “It is not consumed by getting lost like so many algorithms.”
A religious image by Carlo Acutis (Photo: Vatican News)
“In October a fulminant leukemia takes him away, but not what he built. “Pope Francis beatifies him in 2020 in Assisi, where he now rests in the Sanctuary of the Despoilment, the goal of endless pilgrimages,” he noted.
The beatification occurred after the Catholic Church attributed to him the healing of a seriously ill 7-year-old boy, with problems in his pancreas, in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso, Brazil. According to the Brazilian press, the boy was cured after his grandfather touched Acutis’ clothes displayed in a parish in his city and asked him for the cure of his grandson.
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Now, the Pope recognized a new miracle. According to Vatican NewsOn July 8, 2022, a woman named Liliana, from Costa Rica, went to pray to the teenager in front of his grave. “She kneels, prays and leaves a letter, words of hope that surround the worst anguish of a mother,” she indicated.
Six days earlier, his daughter had fallen off her bicycle in downtown Florence and was in critical condition with head trauma. Her condition required a craniotomy operation and removal of the right occipital bone to relieve the pressure. Hope for survival was almost nil, she recalled.
Shortly after, the girl began to breathe again without the help of a respirator, began to move and talk. “From then on it is one of those cases in which medical protocols take a backseat,” he said. Vatican News. The girl recovered completely.
