The fifteen -year -old Carlo Acutis was laid in the sanctuary of Spoliation in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in April 2019.
It was the last wish of the teenager born in London to be buried in Assisi, the house of his 13th-century idol Saint Franciscus, who devoted his life to the care of the poor.
In many ways, Carlo was a normal fifteen -year -old. His mother thought he was 'young and handsome and always smiled, and was a computer genius' who liked to play football and relax with video games.
But the young person, who died of leukemia in 2006, became known worldwide for his religious dedication and the attribution of miracles since his tragic death.
The Vatican has now ruled that Acutis was encouraged from heaven to help two people cure two people in life -threatening circumstances, so that the road for him became sacred as the 'first millennial saint' at the end of next month.
Pilgrims from distant and wide have made the journey to Assisi to see Acutis in peace, where his body has been carefully preserved for visitors.
Carlo Acutis took to the camera while he was wearing an AC Milan -home kit from the nineties
Carlo's mother Antonia Salzano (photo) refers to her deceased son as her 'savior' while Carlo taught her more and more about his faith and credit him with her conversion to Christianity
The remains of blessed Carlo Acutis were in his grave in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore on March 18, 2025 in Assisi, Italy
Carlo Acutis devoted his life to the service of God.
He was three when he took his mother to the Catholic Mass, before her conversion to Christianity.
Antonia Salzano, his mother, said that Carlo had a 'special relationship' with God at a young age, although her family was not religious.
She told Shalom Tidings that she had only been to mass three times before Carlo started dragging her to church at the age of three and a half -year.
Seven age he wrote: “My life plan is to always be close to Jesus.”
It was an obligation that he would carry with him all his life before it was broken down by the blood cancer in 2006.
Born in London in 1991 from an Italian mother and a half-English, half-Italian father who worked as a merchant banker in the United Kingdom, Carlo grew up in Milan, where he took care of his parish website and later that of a academy established in Vatican.
At school, those close to him said he came up for the powerless and bullied.
Carlo's nanny claims that he was partially inspired by St. Francis of Assisi, who was born in the same city, Carlo was laid to rest
A non is near the grave of blessed Carlo Acutis in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore on March 18, 2025 in Assisi, Italy
His mother said he never got into trouble at school and that his faith never faltered.
“Of course there is a lot of jealousy between classmates, but with Carlo that didn't happen,” she said.
“He melts those things like magic; With his smile and purity of Hart, he conquered everyone. He had the ability to strengthen the hearts of people to warm up their cold hearts. '
She added that everyone around him, strangers, teachers, classmates and even priests themselves recognized how special Carlo was.
As a young child, he would donate his money to the poor, and when he was old enough, he spent his evenings with cooking and delivering meals to homeless people.
Then, at the end of every day, Carlo would take the time to think about his life, how he treated his friends, teachers and parents and how he could eliminate any form of sin that he might have committed.
At the start of the Millennium, the young boy began to teach himself computer programming that he would use to share information about his beliefs.
He soon founded a website, “the Eucharistic miracles of the world,” where he investigated and documented miracles that was attributed to the Eucharist.
The website says that it is “aimed at confirming the belief in the real presence of the body and the blood of the Lord in the Eucharist.”
Carlo's diagnosis with leukemia in October 2006 came as a horrible shock.
The disease can take various forms, but influences the blood cells in bone marrow.
Symptoms are fatigue, bruising and bleeding, repeated infections and high temperatures, per blood cancer UK.
The disease affects overwhelming young people. Although it is not to be cured at the moment, it is possible to treat.
Despite his diagnosis, Carlo reassured his parents: “I am happy to die because I lived my life without even wasting for a minute of doing things that God would not have achieved.”
Carlo Acutis died on October 12, 2006.
Pilgrims are in line to enter the church of Santa Maria Maggiore Church and to show their respect to the grave of the blessed Carlo Acutis
Carlo (photo as a baby) was also an incredibly smart young boy, who spoke his first word after three months, started talking after five months and writing at the age of four
A few years later, the Vatican would conclude that Carlo had mediated from heaven to help a young Brazilian boy suffer from a rare pancreatic disease.
Matheus Vianna was diagnosed with ring -shaped pancreas, a rare congenital disease, at the age of two.
One of the symptoms was frequent vomiting, limiting it to a liquid diet.
With the guidance of Fr. Marcelo Tenorio, who supported the cause of Carlo's salvation, began to pray Matheus' mother to the deceased teenager.
The priest recovered a piece of dust from Carlo's clothes and touched the canvas against the young Matheus and asked that he was healed.
According to the family, Matheus never surrendered and started consuming Whole Foods.
The doctors reportedly found that the disease had been cured.
In July 2018, Pope Francis called him respectfully. And after a long investigation, the Vatican decided that it would claim his case in February 2020.
To become a saint, an individual required two miracles attributed to them.
The second would come in 2022, when the mother of a Costa Rican woman who was involved in a serious bicycle accident in his glass box had prayed and left a note in which she was asked that she had been cured in 2022.
The same day her daughter started breathing independently and 10 days later she was fired from Intensive Care because the bleeding in her brain had disappeared.
The Vatican concluded that the 'miracle' was the result of Carlo's intercession in May 2024, so that he cleared the way to become a holy holy.
Cardinal Agostino Vallini, Center, in the St. Francis Basilica, in Assisi, Italy during Carlo's salvation ceremony, one of the steps to Sainthood
Carlo (photo) was a pious Christian when he was still alive and attended the daily mass
Carlo is honored as an exemplary young person for his kindness and caring, acting in life – and, according to the Vatican, after life – to help others in need.
He is now ready to saint as a saint during the jubilee of the church between 25 April and 27 April this year.
The 'Millennial Saint' is in contrast to the historical images of canonized figures whose lives of today can feel for us.
But according to his family, it is the relatability of Carlo as an example of simply compassion in the modern world that makes his example feasible and moving.
Brand on her deceased son, Mrs. Salzano told The Times: 'Sometimes this beautiful [saints] Are all very old and used to live in a completely different world, so that young people don't feel so close to them.
'Carlo was young and handsome and always smiled and was a computer genius and played on his PlayStation and Game Boy.
“Having a saint who played with the same things as you, is something that really touches these young people.”
