Our computer age, especially for youth, will have a new patron saint in October, when VENERABLE CARLOS ACUTIS (see Blogs7/10-18 & 12/7/13) is beatified in Assisi , Italy Assisi ’s Church of St. Mary Major, which is down the mountain from St. Francis' Church.
The date for the beatification was announced the same week as the feast of Corpus Christi
The Venerable Carlos, who died of leukemia at the age of 15, offered his suffering for the pope and for the Church. He was born in London on May 3, 1991 to Italian parents who soon returned to Milan
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The miracle that paved the way for the young man’s beatification involved the healing of a Brazilian child suffering from a rare congenital anatomic anomaly of the pancreas in 2013. The Medical Council of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes gave a positive opinion of the miracle last November, and Pope Francis approved the miracle in February
Not only was he devoted to the Eucharist, but he had a great love of the Mother of God and Eucharist. Carlos would console and support friends whose parents were going through divorces and advocated for the rights of the disabled, often defending peers with disabilities from bullies at school.
“The more Eucharist we receive, the more we will become like Jesus, so that on this earth we will have a foretaste of heaven.”