Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy born in the United Kingdom, who created sites to spread his faith, will be proclaimed the first saint of the Catholic Church Millennial Generation this April, raising him to the same level as Mother Teresa and St. Francis of Assisi.
There is no doubt that he was special, mother told his, Antonia Salzano, to Reuters. But in many ways she said, he was like any other teenager.
Acutis, who learned various computer programming languages and developed websites for his parish and for the general church, died of leukemia at 15 in 2006.
As the reputation of devotion was growing and he was moved along the official way to holiness, his body was transferred to the mountainous city of Assisi in the center of Italy, fulfilling his last wishes.
There he was buried with a wax mold of his image over his body, wearing his running blouse, jeans and sneakers. Since then, crowds have gathered around the transparent coffin.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to the canonization ceremony in St. Peter’s Square on April 27.
Vatican authorities expect Pope Francis, who is still recovering from serious double pneumonia, presides.
But far from all the ceremony and veneration, the core of his appeal was that he lived the same life as other teenagers in the 2000s, struggling to adapt to school, the mother reported.
“Carlo was an ordinary child like the others. He used to play, have friends and go to school. But his extraordinary quality was that he opened the door of his heart to Jesus and placed Jesus first in his life.”
Acutis’s reputation grew even more with the record of miracles reported after his death and attributed to his intercession with God.
Church authorities claim that a 4 -year -old Brazilian boy was cured with a severe pancreatic malformation and a 21 -year -old Costa Rican who was on the verge of death after a bicycle accident.
The mothers of the boy and the woman prayed to Acutis for help, Vatican authorities said.
Allegedly relics of the youth – described as parts of their clothes and even their body – began to appear online, some of them for sale on auction sites, including Ebay.
The Bishop of Assisi, Domenico Sorrentino, denounced sales as “horrible” and said he asked police to confiscate the listed items.
Catholics use these relics as auxiliaries in prayers. The sale is prohibited by the church.
This content was originally published in the mother of the “Saint Millennial” says that young man was an “ordinary child” on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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