Blessed Carlo was a 15-year-old boy renowned for his passion for technology and the Eucharist. Born in England and raised in Italy, Carlo Acutis was a Catholic website designer who gained recognition for cataloging Eucharistic miracles and approved Marian apparitions on a website he developed before his untimely death from leukemia.
Carlo's last words to his mother were poignant:
"Mom, don't be afraid. Since Jesus became a man, death has become the passage towards life, and we don't need to flee it. Let us prepare ourselves to experience something extraordinary in eternal life."
The process for Acutis’s beatification and canonization commenced in 2012 and quickly gained approval from the Holy See in 2013. Pope Francis declared him Venerable on July 5, 2018. His first attributed miracle involved the healing of a Brazilian boy with a malformed pancreas in early 2020 after prayers for Acutis’s intercession and receiving a relic. Acutis was beatified on October 10, 2020.
Known as “the patron saint of the Internet” due to his affinity for technology and his miracles website, Carlo has also been dubbed “the first millennial saint,” marking him as the first of his generation to be considered for sainthood.
Bishop Tonnos Catholic Secondary has developed a presentation to honour Blessed Carlo, featuring a recorded talk by a priest expert on Carlo, an opportunity to view and pray before his relic, and a pre-recorded message to the Bishop Tonnos community from his mother.
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