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The Catholic Church made the beatification of Carlo Acutis official this Saturday the 10th during mass in the Superior Basilica of San Francisco, in Assisi, Italy. Killed on October 12, 2006, at the age of 15, he is popularly known as “internet patron“and”blessed influencer“because he used social networks to evangelize and had computer skills.
Carlo Acutis, the patron saint of the internet, will be beatified on October 10
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The body of the young man is preserved, with casual clothes. That is why it is called as “first tennis player and jeansBorn in London in 1991, he moved with his parents to Italy during his childhood, when he became close to Catholicism.
A beatification it was broadcast on screens installed outside the church, where the faithful gathered, and on social media. Two brothers and the young man’s parents, Andrea and Antonia, participated in the celebration, as did the Cardinal Vicar Agostino Vallini, who read a letter from Pope Francis.
“We grant that the venerable Servant of God Carlo Acutis, a layman, who, with the enthusiasm of his youth, cultivated friendship with the Lord Jesus, placing the Eucharist and the witness of charity at the center of his own life, may henceforth be called blessed and that is celebrated every year in the places and according to the rules established by law, on October 12, the day of his birth into heaven, “says the letter.
The path of the blessed was portrayed in the book. Not me but god, written by Father Ricardo Figueiredo. THE Vatican he attributes it to a miracle that occurred in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in 2010, despite never having reached Brazil. A child with a congenital disease would have healed after his grandfather touched the young man’s clothes that were displayed in a Campo Grande parish./ WITH INFORMATION FROM THE VATICAN NEWS AGENCY
