Pope Francis paved the way for the canonization of the first saint of the millennial generation on Thursday, attributing a second miracle to a 15-year-old Italian computer whiz who died of leukemia in 2006.
Carlo Acutis, born on May 3, 1991, in London and then moved with his Italian parents to Milan as a child, was the youngest contemporary person to be beatified by Francis in Assisi in 2020.
Acutis, who died of acute leukemia on Oct. 12, 2006, was put on the road to sainthood after Pope Francis approved the first miracle attributed to him: The healing of a 7-year-old Brazilian boy from a rare pancreatic disorder after coming into contact with an Acutis’ relic, a piece of one of his T-shirts.
According to Vatican News, the second miracle recognized on Thursday is related to a woman from Costa Rica, who in July 2022 made a pilgrimage to Acutis’ tomb in Assisi to pray for the healing of her daughter, who had suffered severe head trauma after falling from her bicycle. The young woman started showing signs of recovery immediately after her mother’s plea.
so the vatican has all of this kids clothes preserved as relics and they cut off pieces of his t-shirts so they can mail them to cancer patients. just imagining like, spongebob, batman, metallica t-shirts being guarded as holy relics in rome for centuries to come.
has all of this kids clothes preserved as relics and they cut off pieces of his t-shirts so they can mail them to cancer patients
whatever happened to chopping off some bones as relics this is tacky as fuck
For real, my church had gilded skulls and finger bones, in addition to all the chalices and holy hand grenades
Really put me on my path to being a morbid little kid
Young people these days are so woke that they don’t even want to chop up a corpse for souvenirs any more.
I will pray to him when my ping is too high.
It would probably get worse when your prayer try to connect to heavenly server. It is very far and usually pretty overloaded.
Catholicism is a fake ass religion. How can anyone take this shit seriously?!
Also if I know anything about 15 yr old boys who are internet users, it’s that the real relic shouldn’t be one of his t shirts, it should be the crusty sock down the back of his wash basket.
Catholicism is a fake ass religion. How can anyone take this shit seriously?!
still waiting to see a real ass religion
Polytheists are the only real religious people. “Oh yeah our Gods are a bunch of inbred weirdos who live on a Mountain and rule us by arbitrary whims so it totally makes sense that we have to burn horse foreskins for them cuz that’s just some weird shit they’re into, also those people like 20 miles away who have their own pantheon of inbred weirdos are totally legit and if enough of us fuck enough of them we’ll just meld the two inbred weirdo families together.”
Everyone else is trying to nerd there way into thinking there’s some rational benevolent AI controlling everything. Monotheists are the OG scifi nerds.
Why were people praying at his tomb when he wasn’t a saint yet? Why did he have a tomb and not just a grave? Lots of weird shit happening here.
Found this on his wikipedia page:
Carlo Acutis was born in London, England, on 3 May 1991, to Andrea Acutis and Antonia Salzano, members of wealthy Italian families.[4][6][7][8] The Acutis family had a prominent position in the Italian insurance industry.[9] The Salzanos ran a publishing company.[10] Acutis’ maternal great-grandmother was born in the United States and came from a family of landowners in New York.[11]
So this kid’s rich parents made a hefty donation to the church and now he’s a saint? Is that how it works?
Is that how it works?
Some saints were canononized because of genuine religious reasons but rich and powerful people has always been able to lobby the church to get one of their guys canonised, that’s why most European countries have a saint who also happens to have been a king.
Due to having played video games in life, Acutis has been described as the “first saintly gamer”.
