Facts about Carlo Acutis

Mother putting her hands on a grave while holding a white flower.

Pray for the Mother of Carlo Acutis

Christopher Heffron June 23, 2025

At 15, we know so little of the world at large—only our immediate one of school, friends, and budding adulthood.

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Carlo Acutis: ‘Thy Eternal Summer Shall Not Fade’

Christopher Heffron May 29, 2025

The summer before my senior year of high school, Pete, a classmate of mine, was killed in a car accident. We were not friends—in fact, I don’t think he and I exchanged more than a few words in three years. ...

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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

OSV News April 4, 2025

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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Dear Carlo Acutis…

Christopher Heffron March 23, 2025

A proud member of Generation X pens an open letter to this beloved millennial saint.

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‘Not Me, but God’

Maureen O'Brien December 26, 2024

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

Maureen O'Brien October 25, 2024

“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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