Английская Википедия:Carlo Acutis

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Carlo Acutis (3 May 1991 – 12 October 2006) was an English-born Italian Catholic website designer best known for documenting Eucharistic miracles and approved Marian apparitions. He catalogued them on a website he created before his death from leukemia.

He was noted for his cheerfulness, computer skills, and deep devotion to the Eucharist, which became a core theme of his life. He was beatified by Pope Francis on 10 October 2020, two days before the 14th anniversary of his death.

Early life

Birth and baptism

Carlo Acutis was born in London, England, on 3 May 1991, to Andrea Acutis and Antonia Salzano, members of wealthy Italian families.Шаблон:Sfn The Acutis family had a prominent position in the Italian insurance industry.Шаблон:Sfn The Salzanos ran a publishing company.Шаблон:Sfn Acutis' maternal great-grandmother was born in the United States and came from a family of landowners in New York.Шаблон:Sfn

His baptism took place on 18 May 1991 in the Church of Our Lady of Dolours, Chelsea. His paternal grandfather, Carlo, was his godfather, and his maternal grandmother, Luana, was his godmother.Шаблон:Sfn

His first nanny was a young Scottish woman who once gave him a small amount of alcohol to help him sleep.Шаблон:Sfn Neither parent was religious, and they had worked in London and Germany before Acutis was born.

Move to Italy

The family moved to Milan in September 1991, not long after Acutis' birth.Шаблон:Sfn Both parents began working in their families' businessesШаблон:Sfn and Acutis was cared for by a new Irish nanny.Шаблон:Sfn

Aside from a few visits to a daycare center, most of Acutis' early care came from nannies.Шаблон:Sfn At one such visit to a daycare center, he began to be hassled by other children.Шаблон:Sfn He was now under the care of a Polish nanny who thought Acutis was "too good" and she tried to teach him to set boundaries so that the other children would not take his toys.Шаблон:Sfn He once responded to her that "Jesus would not be happy if I lost my temper."Шаблон:Sfn

In the summer, Acutis was sent to stay with his mother's parents in Centola.Шаблон:Sfn After spending the day at the beach, he would join a number of older women in the local parish church to pray the rosary.Шаблон:Sfn His family owned a boat at Santa Margherita Ligure.Шаблон:Sfn

School years

Acutis' first grade school, the San Carlo Institute, was one of the most elite schools in Milan.Шаблон:Sfn He entered in September 1997 but the school was a distance from their home and three months later he transferred to Marcelline Tommaseo Institute, a school closer to his home.Шаблон:Sfn During his walks to school, he took a particular interest in the home caretakers, most of whom were not Italian, he met along the way.Шаблон:Sfn After learning their names, he would stop to greet them personally each morning.Шаблон:Sfn

Starting in September 2002 he received his middle school education at the Marcelline Tommaseo Institute, which is run by the Sisters of St. Marcellina, and went to the Jesuit Instituto Leone XIII high school.Шаблон:Sfn He was an average student, but liked to read and independently study areas that interested him, including computer science.Шаблон:Sfn He also taught himself to play the saxophone.Шаблон:Sfn He had a tutor who helped him with his homework and ended up following him to church.Шаблон:Sfn

Outside school, he did volunteer work with the homeless and destitute. He also liked films, comic editing, and playing PlayStation video games.Шаблон:Citation needed He struggled with his weight, often overindulging on Nutella.Шаблон:Sfn As a sacrifice, he would give up sweets or his favorite movies, like the children of Fatima.Шаблон:Sfn He admired the poverty of the Franciscans and sought to emulate it.Шаблон:Sfn

Acts of kindness

Acutis was a lover of nature.Шаблон:Sfn His father bought him a device to pick up trash while hiking so that he would not fill his pockets with trash and cigarette butts.Шаблон:Sfn While at the beach, he used an inflatable boat, snorkel, and fins to retrieve trash in the ocean.Шаблон:Sfn He also became very angry when he encountered young people who were stomping on lizards.Шаблон:Sfn An animal lover, he had two cats, four dogs, and fish at home, and asked his parents to take in every stray animal he found.Шаблон:Sfn

On the social side, Acutis would worry about friends of his whose parents were divorcing and would invite them to his home to support them.Шаблон:Sfn He defended peers at school when bullies mocked them.Шаблон:Sfn He would sometimes see two friends at school fighting, and then invite them back to his house after school to help them reconcile.Шаблон:Sfn He also spoke up for girls who were being whistled at or harassed, and told the boys doing so to stop.Шаблон:Sfn

When his grandparents gave him several games for his birthday one year, Acutis visited the Capuchin friars in Milan and donated them to children who had none.Шаблон:Sfn In the evenings, Acutis would ask his grandmother to make a snack for a man who begged in the park near their house.Шаблон:Sfn When he dropped it off, Acutis would also give the beggar some of his pocket money to buy coffee in the morning.Шаблон:Sfn

Family life

Acutis's parents were not able to have other children during his lifetime, though they wanted them and met with doctors to assist them in conceiving.Шаблон:Sfn His mother, Antonia, is said to attribute to his intercession the fact that, at the age of 44, she gave birth to twins, Michele and Francesca, born precisely four years to the day after his death.Шаблон:Sfn During his lifetime his cousin Flavia was his best friend.Шаблон:Sfn

The Acutises employed a Brahmin immigrant from India to work in their household.Шаблон:Sfn Rajesh Mohur and Acutis quickly became friends.Шаблон:Sfn In time, after speaking with Acutis about Christianity, Mohur asked to be baptized.Шаблон:Sfn A friend of Mohur's, Seeven Kistnen, also converted and was baptized after meeting with Acutis and hearing him speak about the faith.Шаблон:Sfn

Acutis's mother, Antonia, grew up in a secular family.Шаблон:Sfn She was confirmed while she was in college and was married in the church, but she did not attend mass before Acutis was born.Шаблон:Sfn It was her son's faith, and his insistent questions, that brought her back to the faith.Шаблон:Sfn It was similar for his father.Шаблон:Sfn Antonia was asked, and agreed, to lead a catechism class after Acutis made his first communion, though she did not feel qualified to do so.Шаблон:Sfn

The Acutis family would sometimes invite priests to dinner, including a high-ranking official at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.Шаблон:Sfn The family also supported scholarships for underprivileged students at the Pontifical Oriental Institute and the Pontifical Biblical Institute.Шаблон:Sfn

Although he immensely enjoyed travel and visited a number of different countries, the town of Assisi remained a favorite.Шаблон:Sfn His parents bought a second home in the city.Шаблон:Sfn

Though Acutis was considered a computer genius, his parents were not as skilled and said they did not know how to set up parental controls on his computer.Шаблон:Sfn

Religious education and devotion

When Acutis was three years old, his maternal grandfather, Antonio Salzano, died.Шаблон:Sfn Several days before his death, Acutis was present when his grandfather received the anointing of the sick.Шаблон:Sfn The grandfather was said to have appeared to him in a dream asking to be prayed for. Shortly after his death, Acutis put on his coat while his grandmother was caring for him and asked to be taken to church.Шаблон:Sfn When she asked him why, Acutis said he wanted to pray for his grandfather who, Acutis said, "went to see Jesus."Шаблон:Sfn

When Acutis displayed an interest in Catholic religious practice, his questions were answered by the family's Polish babysitter.

Parish life

When Acutis was 12 years old, he became a catechist at his parish, Santa Maria Segreta.Шаблон:Sfn In the structure in Italy at the time, religious education was typically conducted by young team leaders in youth groups as opposed to an adult standing at the head of a classroom.Шаблон:Sfn The pastor or other adult would provide the lesson, and the young person would impart it to their peers.Шаблон:Sfn

His parish priest said of Acutis that

Sacraments

On June 16, 1998, Acutis received his First Communion at the age of seven at the convent of Sant'Ambrogio ad Nemus, Milan.Шаблон:Sfn After that he made an effort, either before or after Mass, to reflect before the tabernacle.Шаблон:Sfn Acutis became a frequent communicant, would often attend Eucharistic Adoration,Шаблон:Sfn and would make a weekly confession.Шаблон:Sfn He was confirmed on May 24, 2003, at Saint-Marie Secrete Church.Шаблон:Sfn

Pilgrimages

While in Meteora, Acutis visited an Eastern Orthodox church, met hieromonks, and watched the faithful kiss the icons on the iconostasis.Шаблон:Sfn Acutis visited Lourdes, France, for the first time in February 2005.Шаблон:Sfn The following year, in February 2006, he traveled to Portugal – visiting the Sanctuary of the Most Holy Miracle of Santarém and the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima – for the final time.Шаблон:Sfn

His father once proposed that the family visit the Holy Land, but Acutis responded that he would rather stay in Milan: "Why go to where Jesus was 2,000 years ago, whereas He is here now?"Шаблон:Sfn While he wanted to visit the Holy Land, he instead decided to make a pilgrimage to each of the churches in Milan, seeing as many of them were often empty.Шаблон:Sfn

He attended the Rimini Meeting in 2002 with his parents.Шаблон:Sfn

Devotion to saints

He is said to have had several models as guides for his life, especially Francis of Assisi, as well as Francisco and Jacinta Marto, Dominic Savio, Tarcisius, Bernadette Soubirous, and Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi.Шаблон:Sfn He would often visit church alone.Шаблон:Sfn He would frequently pray to his guardian angel and had a special devotion to St. Michael the Archangel.Шаблон:Sfn

Websites

Those around him considered him a "computer geek" on account of his passion and skill with computers and the internet. He was skilled in using Dreamweaver, Java, C++, and Ubuntu.Шаблон:Sfn He often helped others with technical issues.Шаблон:Sfn

When he was 14, his parish priest asked him to create a webpage for his parish, Santa Maria Segreta in Milan.Шаблон:Sfn After this, a priest at his high school asked him to create a website to promote volunteering, on which Acutis spent most of the summer of 2006 working.Шаблон:Sfn For this work, he won a national competition named "Sarai volontario" (You will be a volunteer).Шаблон:Sfn

Eucharistic miracles

Having seen the need for a new way to transmit the faith to a younger generation,Шаблон:Sfn Acutis applied himself to creating a website dedicated to cataloging each reported Eucharistic miracle in the world, as well as a list of the approved Marian apparitions of the Catholic Church. He appreciated Blessed Giacomo Alberione's initiatives to use the media to evangelize and proclaim the Gospel and aimed to do likewise with the website he had created.Шаблон:Citation needed

Acutis was inspired by the Italian designs of Lancia, Ferrari, and Maserati, which are works of art in addition to being automobiles.Шаблон:Sfn After attending the Rimini Meeting, which took place not far from the factories that produce the cars, he began to wonder why the Church could not present Christ and the Church better.Шаблон:Sfn

Acutis launched the website in 2004Шаблон:Sfn and worked on it for two and a half years, involving his entire family in the project.Шаблон:Sfn It was unveiled on October 4, 2006, the Feast of St. Francis, only days before his death.Шаблон:Sfn Acutis was not able to attend the debut of his exhibition at Rome's Church of San Carlo Borromeo as he was hospitalized.Шаблон:Sfn It was also presented at his high school, the Leo XIII Institute.Шаблон:Sfn

Final days

Illness

On October 1, 2006, Acutis developed an inflammation of the throat.Шаблон:Sfn His parents brought him to a doctor who diagnosed him with parotitis and dehydration, which a second doctor, a family friend, confirmed.Шаблон:Sfn A few days later, the pain became worse and there was blood in his urine.Шаблон:Sfn By October 8, a Sunday, Acutis was too weak to get out of bed to go to Mass.Шаблон:Sfn

Acutis was brought to a clinic that specialized in blood diseases and was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia.Шаблон:Sfn He was given almost no chance of recovery.Шаблон:Sfn He was rushed to the intensive care unit and given a respirator mask to assist with his breathing.Шаблон:Sfn After a sleepless night, Acutis was transported to San Gerardo Hospital north of Milan, one of only three hospitals in Italy that was equipped to treat his illness.Шаблон:Sfn

The hospital chaplain was called in and performed the anointing of the sick.Шаблон:Sfn When a nurse came in to care for him, he asked her not to wake his parents as they were already very tired and he did not want to worry them more.Шаблон:Sfn

Acutis offered his suffering both for Pope Benedict XVI and for the Catholic Church, saying: "I offer to the Lord the sufferings that I will have to undergo for the Pope and for the Church."Шаблон:Sfn He had asked his parents to take him on pilgrimages to the sites of all the known Eucharistic miracles in the world, but his declining health prevented this from happening.

The doctors treating his final illness had asked him if he was in great pain, a question to which he responded that "there are people who suffer much more than me".Шаблон:Sfn His final words to his mother were

Death and burial

Acutis fell into a coma and was rushed to the intensive care unit where he underwent a treatment to cleanse his blood.Шаблон:Sfn He experienced a cerebral hemorrhage and was pronounced brain dead on October 11.Шаблон:Sfn Acutis died on October 12, 2006, at 6:45 p.m.Шаблон:Sfn He was 15 years old at the time of his death.

After the mortuary cleaned his body, Acutis' parents brought his body home where a flood of people came over the next four days to pay their last respects.Шаблон:Sfn Acutis's body had the odor of sanctity.Шаблон:Sfn At his funeral, a crowd of strangers attended.Шаблон:Sfn

Many young people who had fallen away from the church returned for his funeral, and then for a memorial mass three months later.Шаблон:Sfn The Friends of Carlo Acutis was formed to organize annual requiem masses.Шаблон:Sfn

There was a woman with a cancerous tumor at his funeral.Шаблон:Sfn A few days after the funeral, her doctor told her the tumor had disappeared.Шаблон:Sfn Also at the funeral was a 44-year-old woman who wanted to have children, but was not able to give birth.Шаблон:Sfn Nine months after the funeral, she had a child.Шаблон:Sfn Both women attribute their miracles to Acutis' intercession.Шаблон:Sfn

Exhumation and removals

It was Acutis' final wish to be buried in Assisi after his death.Шаблон:Sfn A year after his death, his body was transferred to the Assisi cemetery in accordance with his wishes.

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Tomb of Carlo Acutis at the Sanctuary of the Spoliation in Assisi, Italy

On April 6, 2018, his body was brought to the Sanctuary of the Spoliation so that the faithful could visit his final resting spot and venerate his body.Шаблон:Sfn The procession began on Friday night and ended on Saturday morning, traveling a distance of 1.5 miles.Шаблон:Sfn Overnight, the procession stopped at the Cathedral of San Rufino where the diocesan choir sang a Non io, ma Dio, ("Not me, but God"), a hymn especially composed for the occasion by Marco Mammoli.Шаблон:Sfn

Legacy

Following the Catholic Church's recognition of a miracle in 2020, attributed to Acutis, Antonia told the press that her son had appeared to her in dreams saying that he will not only be beatified but also canonized a saint in the future.

There is a website for his canonization cause, another for educators, young people, and prayer groups, and sites for each of the four exhibitions that he inspired.Шаблон:Sfn

Photo exhibition of eucharistic miracles

In memory of Acutis, bishops Raffaello Martinelli and Angelo Comastri have helped to organize a traveling photo exhibition of all the Eucharistic miracle sites. It has since traveled to dozens of different countries across five continents.

The preface to the print version of the exhibit was written by Cardinal Angelo ComastriШаблон:Sfn and has been translated into 18 languages.Шаблон:Sfn It has traveled to more than 10,000 places, including churches, congressional palaces, youth clubs, and welcome centers. The exhibít was also brought to the canonization of Francisco and Jacinta Marto in Fatima, Portugal.Шаблон:Sfn

Parish of Blessed Carlo Acutis

On 15 December 2020, under the provisions of Canon Law, Archbishop Bernard Longley established a new parish in the Archdiocese of Birmingham under the patronage of the Blessed Carlo Acutis. The parish incorporates the three churches of St Peter & Paul, St Michael and St Bernadette in Wolverhampton.

In July 2021, the parishes of St. John Berchmans in Logan Square, Chicago, and St. Hedwig in Bucktown combined under the patronage of Blessed Carlo Acutis.

Other

In April 2022, the first life-sized statue of Acutis in the United Kingdom was erected at Carfin Grotto, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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Relics of Blessed Carlo Acutis and Saint Manuel González García visiting the St. Clement Chapel at Dartmouth College

Acutis is quoted as saying that "We are all born originals, but many of us die as photocopies."Шаблон:Sfn In the document that concluded the Synod on Young People in 2018, Pope Francis used the phrase and praised Acutis thusly:

Pope Francis has also spoken about Acutis as a model for people who live normal lives to grow in holiness.Шаблон:Sfn

Relics of Carlo Acutis, along with his Eucharistic miracles photo exhibition, have been touring around the world.

Beatification

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Santa Maria Maggiore, Assisi, Acutis's burial place

The call for him to be beatified began not long after Acutis's death. On October 12, 2012, the sixth anniversary of his death, the Archdiocese of Milan opened the cause for canonization.Шаблон:Sfn

The campaign gained momentum on May 13, 2013, when the Congregation for the Causes of Saints issued a nihil obstat stating there was nothing preventing the cause from moving forward.Шаблон:Sfn He was then named a Servant of God, the first stage on the path towards sainthood. The Lombardy Episcopal Conference approved the petition for the official canonization cause to proceed at a meeting in 2013.

The opening of the diocesan investigation was held on 15 February 2013, with Cardinal Angelo Scola inaugurating the process, and concluding it on 24 November 2016.Шаблон:Sfn Scola said Acutis was not called to be "a movie star, but a star in Heaven" and that Acutis is "a new treasure in the Ambrosian church."Шаблон:Sfn The formal introduction to the cause occurred on 13 May 2013, and Acutis became titled a "Servant of God". Pope Francis next confirmed his life as one of heroic virtue on 5 July 2018, and declared him Venerable.Шаблон:Sfn

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Reliquary with drops of blood of Carlo Acutis

On 14 November 2019, the Vatican's Medical Council of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints expressed a positive opinion about a miracle in Brazil attributed to Acutis's intercession. Luciana Vianna had taken her son, Mattheus, who was born with a pancreatic defect that made eating difficult, to a prayer service. Beforehand, Vianna had already prayed a novena asking for the teenager Acutis's intercession. During the service, her son had asked that he should not "throw up as much". Immediately following the service, Mattheus told his mother that he felt healed and asked for solid food when he came home. Until then he had been on an all-liquid diet. After a detailed investigation, Pope Francis confirmed the miracle's authenticity in a decree on 21 February 2020, leading to Acutis's beatification.

Within a month of the decree, the beatification ceremony was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, during which the country was placed on lockdown. It was rescheduled for 10 October 2020 and was held in the Upper Church of the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi in Assisi, Italy, with Cardinal Agostino Vallini presiding on the Pope's behalf. Шаблон:As of, the postulator for Acutis's cause is Nicola Gori.

Since the beatification ceremony on 10 October 2020, silent crowds have been filing past the exposed relics of the blessed youth in the one-time cathedral of Assisi, the church of Santa Maria Maggiore.

See also

• List of beatified people

Further reading

• The Eucharist: My Highway to Heaven by Nicola Gori, a reporter at L'Osservatore Romano, and the postulator for Acutis' cause since 2019.Шаблон:Sfn

Works cited

• Шаблон:Cite book

External links

• Official website
• The apparitions of Our Lady – List of Marian apparitions catalogued by Acutis
• Eucharistic Miracles – List of Eucharistic miracles catalogued by Acutis
• 2006 Hagiography Circle
• Wolverhampton Parish of Blessed Carlo Acutis – Incorporating the churches of St Peter & Paul, St Michael and St Bernadette.
• "My Son Carlo" – biography of Carlo Acutis by his mother, Antonia Salzano Acutis