Facts about Carlo Acutis

A pilgrimage touches the reliquary containing a relic of the heart of Blessed Carlo Acutis during Sept. 21, 2024, public veneration at St. Anthony’s Church in Manchester, England. The relic of Blessed Carlo, who will be canonized in 2025, attracted more than 5,000 pilgrims during a Sept. 20-23 visit. (OSV News photo/Simon Caldwell)

A saint with a song: Carlo Acutis honored in ‘Corpus Christi’ video

Blessed Carlo Acutis, the Italian teen set to be canonized April 27, has been hailed as a model for modern youth -- and now, the soon-to-be-saint and his devotion to the Eucharist have been honored in a new single and ...
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Illustration of Saint Carlo Acutis

Dear Carlo Acutis…

A proud member of Generation X pens an open letter to this beloved millennial saint. 
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man wearing black Nike shoes

‘Not Me, but God’

And the miracles, all of them, move forward, as miracles do, and this new one, a boy who believed, who chronicled miracles about holy bread.
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Blessed Carlo Acutis

Carlo Acutis: Miracles, Holy Bread, and a Teen Saint in the Making 

“Not me, but God,” Blessed Carlo Acutis is quoted as saying. When this author visited Assisi, she discovered the growing excitement surrounding the millennial teenager’s life, legacy, and sainthood cause.
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Campers enjoy canoeing on the lake at Blessed Carlo Acutis Youth Camp in Huttonsville, W.Va., in this undated photo. (OSV News photo/courtesy of Blessed Carlo Acutis Youth Camp)

Carlo Acutis Youth Camp officials overjoyed about namesake’s canonization

Its mission is to lead young people to a deep relationship with Jesus Christ through his church. And the Blessed Carlo Acutis Youth Camp does just that each summer for young Catholics in West Virginia.
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Antonia Salzano Acutis, mother of Blessed Carlo Acutis, prays in the shrine dedicated to her son at St. Dominic Church in Brick, N.J., Oct. 1, 2023, the day it was dedicated by Bishop David M. O'Connell of Trenton, N.J. Pope Francis formally recognized a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian teenager whose birth in 1991 will make him the first "millennial" to become a saint. (OSV News photo/Mike Ehrmann, Diocese of Trenton)

His lifelong dream was to be a saint, Blessed Carlo Acutis’ mother says

While many Catholics around the world rejoiced upon hearing the news that Pope Francis had approved a second miracle attributed to Blessed Carlo Acutis, none was happier than his mother, Antonia Salzano.
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