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Carlo Acutis was an Italian Catholic teenager who died of leukemia in 2006, at the age of 15. Became known as “internet pattern” among the faithful and will be beatified next week by the Vatican, which recognized what it considers a miracle performed by him in Brazil.
Born in London, Acutis grew up in Milan, Italy, where as a child he became a Catholic and a devotee of the Virgin Mary.
“Since he was a child, especially after his first communion, he never missed the daily encounter with Holy Mass and the Rosary, followed by a moment of Eucharistic adoration,” his mother, Antonia Acutis, told the Catholic news agency ACI.
In addition to church, Carlo also liked computers and had a computer literacy far above average for children his age.
“He was a computer expert, he read books on computer engineering and amazed everyone, but he put his gift at the service of others and used it to help his friends,” says the mother.
Carlo managed to bring the two passions together by creating a website dedicated to carefully cataloging every previously reported miracle and evangelizing, a feat that earned him the title of “patron of the Internet.”
“This boy was really brilliant and many aspects of his life are an incentive for us,” Bishop Domenico Sorrentino, bishop of Assisi, told the Vatican news website.
After being diagnosed with leukemia, Carlo Acutis passed away on October 12, 2006, the day of Our Lady of Aparecida.
After his death, Father Marcelo Tenório, from the parish of São Sebastião, in Campo Grande, began to perform the annual Mass of Nossa Senhora de Aparecida, always with a relic of Carlo on display: a garment that would even have Italian blood.
In one of these masses, in 2010, a desperate grandfather with the diagnosis of his sick grandson took him to the parish and, by touching his clothes, he would have been cured.
“The girl, I remember well, was atrophied and had annular problems of the pancreas. She did not eat anything, ingested neither solids nor liquids and she was cured shortly after,” said Father Marcelo Tenório, in an interview with G1 MS in November of the last year, when the Vatican recognized Carlo’s miracle.
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The beatification ceremony for Carlo Acutis will take place on October 10. His body is on display at the Sanctuary of Dispossession in Assisi, central Italy.
In good condition – the Vatican says Acutis’s remains were “reassembled,” but did not give details about the process – the young man’s body is expected to receive some 3,000 pilgrims at the sanctuary.
The veneration of Acutis will end on October 17, when the tomb will be closed. Due to the pandemic, the local diocese said it would deploy screens in various parts of the city of Assisi.
Carlo Acute by Rutilio Grande – Photo: Vatican News
