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Renato Farina
Seeing the public glory bestowed on a holy child, but a giant saint, in these moments of great shame for the Church is one of the ironies of history, or a mystery of God, whatever. Carlo sharp died at the age of 15 years a Monza, on October 12, 2006, for a fulminant leukemia, which surprised him without quenching an unseemly joy in those who are about to die. A lot not very normal signs they had sprayed her way in life and then coincided with her body’s stay in a niche ad Assisi, the city where in the basilica of San Francisco he will be proclaimed blessed on October 10 at 4:30 p.m. live on television. (By the way, it is not yet known who will use the ritual formula and discover his official image as blessed. The show still features the prefect for the saints’ causes, but at this point Angelo Becciu he is a decadent cardinal and is no longer authorized to confer halos. It would be a fantastic blow if the Pope came directly in his place, leaving many demons in his home in the Vatican.) What signs? Instant healing in those who approached Carlo asking for a prayer for an inexorable tumor. Then, after the passage of a congenital malformation, an impossible case: a cured pancreas in a child, by grace requested and obtained by Carlo on the anniversary of his death, certified by atheist doctors, as required by the rules of enlistment to the heavenly ranks planned. of the Holy See. Other themes for some disturbing and not aesthetically appropriate, but certainly infrequent, were found in Mexico and Japan in the references to his intervention after his death.
Mother – In continuity with the exhibition on “Eucharistic miracles” that he put on shortly before his illness, Jesus had assured him that there would be similar “signs”. Her mother told Stefano Lorenzetto,. Antonia salzano, a very cultured woman, whom her son has rescued from a certain agnosticism by pulling her hair. Sincere hosts, reddened by blood and throbbing heart tissues, blood group AB, the same as the Shroud. Until a year ago, as prescribed by the canonical protocol of candidates for beatification, the body of Carlos was exhumed. This body of his was uncorrupted, absolutely intact! It is not a way to put it. Height 1.82 m according to identity card, with an exact weight of 70 kg, the same ones verified at the time of death in the San Gerardo de Brianza hospital. Only the skin had darkened as it happened for example for Teresa in Lisieux (little Teresa, 1883-1897) and first to Bernadette Soubirous (the seer of Lourdes). Since yesterday this strange spectacle has been the object of the gaze of those who go to Assisi. It will be like this until October 17. To avoid exploration by curious entomologists, he covered his face with a wax mold. But that body is intact, professors who have nothing to do with incense and candles attest. Miracle? Science will be able to identify reasons within the laws of physics and chemistry: it is not that we can return to the divine hand from this phenomenon that is certainly quite rare. But damn the amount of inexplicable things that surround Carlo, inexplicable and also full of happy promises. It is not macabre to venerate a body destined for resurrection, relics are not rot, but spring mold, wrote Giovanni Testori. Irrationality and magic against reason and intelligence? I pray that I complain. It is rationalism that denies the divine by affirming that it is absurd or impossible. Rationalism is right like pulmonary pneumonia. Throwing out the big thing perhaps – let me hold it – is, yes, irrational. What is the supreme category of reason if not that of possibility? We know so little, and if believers are full of many doubts, it would be fair to admit it in the opposite sense of atheists and agnostics. In the meantime, it is worth explaining who Carlo was (and is). Born in London in 1991 to parents who were there for work reasons, he soon proved himself a genius. It is not entirely true that heaven chooses only ignorant shepherds, as unbelievers love to repeat, alluding to their easy manipulation: it prefers the pure of heart, yes. At the age of six, Carlo was dealing in computers by solving mathematical questions. At nine, dedicating himself to books at the Polytechnic, he learned to design computer programs. Enfant prodige of the web. Modern? Archpostmodern. Science knows little and stutters, faith opens the depths of the cosmos and history. Who put this seed on him, considering the parched parents about it? Perhaps the Polish nanny, Beata, dedicated to Pope Wojtyla. At the age of three, Carlo wanted to go to all the churches to greet Jesus, in the parks he collected flowers for the Virgin.
Among the homeless – He asked to bring the first communion at 7 years old. The surprised parents let him proceed according to their wishes. Carlo left the house every night with thermal containers for food and drinks, bought sleeping bags with his savings: he went to the tramps at the Arco della Pace in Milan. It was used by the Capuchins in the soup kitchens on Viale Piave. He gave Baggio a hand to the Sisters of Mother Teresa. On the web she communicated her faith without preaching, with simplicity, an influential of God. Not modernism in matters of faith: popular popular, as requested by Don Bosco. The sweet solidity of the Eucharist, the overflowing joy, the total admiration for John Paul II and then for Benedict XVI. Until the disease came. He was aware of it before he was diagnosed. He loved everything and everyone. He saw God in everything, he saw Jesus in everyone, he was sure he was going to die. He told his parents happily. “I offer these sufferings for the Pope, for the Church and for going straight to heaven without going through purgatory.” The mother got scared and called a luminary, the teacher Vittorio Carnelli. Tests, misdiagnosis: M3 acute myeloid leukemia. Carlo was informed of this by the hematologists. He reacted gently and commented, “The Lord has given me a nice wake-up call.” In this world full of dead souls, the alarm clock rings in certain rooms. To paraphrase Hemingway: it sounds familiar. And very high too.
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