San Carlos Acutis is the first Millennial Holy. He was born in London on May 3, 1991. After communion at 7 years he began to devote himself to the Church. His phrase was famous: “The Eucharist is my way to heaven.” According to the Digital Medium Lay Catholic Report, the new saint of the Catholic Church has a family in Venezuela, as their grandparents lived in Caracas
Pope Leo XIV canonized this Sunday, September 7 at a ceremony in the Plaza de San Pedro before tens of thousands of faithful to Carlo Acutis, the young man who died in 2006 at age 15 and who thus becomes the first Millennial Holy and already known as the “Internet pattern” for having used him to speak of God to his contemporaries.
Together with Acutis (1991-2006), Santo Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901-1925) was also proclaimed.
The ceremony in San Pedro was faithful from all over the world, especially many young devotees from Acutis and carried in their hands some stamps with the image of the adolescent.
The whole family of Carlo Acutis, his parents and his two brothers, and his mother Antonia Salzano was in charge of bringing the Reliquary with fragment of his son’s heart.
San Carlos Acutis is the first Millennial Holy. He was born in London on May 3, 1991 where they lived for their father’s work and then moved to Milan and after communion at 7 years began to devote himself to the Church. His phrase was famous: “The Eucharist is my way to heaven.”
Working with a computer engineering student on the parish page, he learned to design and create web pages and passionate about this activity that in the summer of 2006 created the website of a volunteer project at his school and collaborated on the page of the Pontifical Academy Cultorum Martyrum, to which his mother belonged. With his computer, he also created a plan to pray the Rosary.
«Carlo was a kind, cheerful and jovial teenager. He did not hide his faith or his love for Jesus. He was eager to help his companions in need, and in the neighborhood where he lived, he helped the poor who begged with their friendship and part of their pay. He said: being always linked to Jesus, this is my life plan, ”said Smeraro.
Passing part of his summer vacation in Assisi (Perugia), San Francisco felt very close for respect for creation, the search for peace and delivery to the most needy.
In October 2006, he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia. In a matter of days, his health already worsened for 15 years and 5 months, on October 12, 2006, he died.
His body has been preserved in the Church of the Spagliazione, in Assisi, where it is exhibited for the veneration of numerous faithful around the world.
He was beatified on October 10, 2020 in the Basilica of San Francisco de Asís and on May 23 it was known that the Pope had signed the decree for his canonization.
With family in Venezuela
According to the digital medium Lay Catholic Reportthe new saint of the Catholic Church has a family in Venezuela, as their grandparents lived in Caracas.
Rosa Pellino, the sister of Carlo’s maternal grandmother, that is, aunt grandmother of the young man, he explained to Catholic report “that grandfather came to Venezuela during World War II, like so many Europeans. He soon met Luana and formed a home. Antonella was born in that home, who married Andrea Acutis, Carlo’s parents.
The congregation for the causes of the saints recognized as a miracle necessary for its beatification the healing, considered inexplicable by some experts, which occurred on October 12, 2013 in Campo Grande in Brazil, where a South American child born in 2010 with a congenital malformation of the pancreas lived.
The second miracle for his canonization is related to a woman from Costa Rica, who in July 2022 pilgrimage to Acutis’s grave, in Assisi, to pray for the healing of his daughter, who had suffered a serious cranial trauma after falling from his bicycle.
A young student of Florence, Valeria, suffered a craniocerebral trauma and the doctors gave him very few chances of surviving. His mother Liliana pilgated to Carlo’s tomb to pray for his help and that same day, his daughter began to breathe on its own.
With information from the EFE agency
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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