The ceremony was in the Plaza de San Pedro, chaired by Pope Leo XIV. The young man died at age 15 and was recognized for creating websites to disseminate Catholic teaching.
The London influencer Carlo Acutisdeceased at 15 years of age, became the first Millennial Holy, a ceremony chaired by the Pope Leo XIV This Sunday, in the Vatican.
The ceremony was in the San Pedro del Vaticano Square Before tens of thousands of faithful and also canonized another very young deceased Italian, the student Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901-1925), passionate about mountaineering, known for its social and spiritual commitment.
In his short life, Acutis created websites that documented “miracles” as a means to disseminate Catholic teaching, which led some to nickname God’s influencer.
The influencer Carlo Acutis is already holy
“The saints Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis are an invitation for all of us, Especially for young people, not to waste life, but to guide it high and make it a masterpiece. They encourage us with their words: ‘No me, but God,’ said Carlo and Pier Giorgio: ‘If you have God as the center of all your actions, then you will reach the end,’ said the pontiff in the homily of his first canonization.
“I’m glad to see so many young people!” The Pope celebrated a few minutes before the start of the ceremony. One of them, Filippo Bellaviti, 17, told AFP: “Carlo Acutis was an example for me, because he knew how to combine his daily life – school, football and his passion for computer science – with unwavering faith.”
His canonization had to take place at the end of April, but was postponed after the death of Pope Francis. It is estimated that More than one million people pilgrimage to the Italian city of Assisiat the top of a hill, where Carlo’s body lies, preserved in wax.
There is another place of pilgrimage associated with Carlo Acutis that saw an increase in the number of visitors since its sanctification was announced: the Church of Our Lady of Dolores in London, where Carlo was baptized when he was a baby in 1991.
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Carlo Acutis’s story with the Catholic Church
Next to the Church, an old confessional became a sanctuary in his honor. In it, a relic holder contains a strand of Carlo hair. “His family worked in the financial sector and worked temporarily in London,” said the father Paul Addisonchurch friar, according to the BBC.
In Milan, where his family moved shortly after his birth, he was known for his love for technology and is said to enjoy playing video games. At the age of 15, in 2006, he died of leukemia.
In the years after his death, Carlo’s mother, Antonia Salzano, visited churches around the world to advocate for his holiness. As part of the process, it should be demonstrated that his son had done “miracles.”
“The first miracle did it on the day of the funeral,” says Carlo’s mother and explained that “a woman with breast cancer prayed for Carlo and had to start chemotherapy and cancer disappeared completely.”
Source: Ambito
