A race towards sainthood at full speed, proportional only to the very young age of the person concerned. It’s that of Carlo Acutisthe Lombard student He died at the age of fifteen from fulminant leukemiawho has become a model of Christian life for many young faithful as well as a sort of “patron saint of the internet”, already proclaimed blessed on 10 October 2020 in Assisi, and who will now become a saint having been recognized as a second miracle due to his intercession.
The other news today is that the Blessed will also be sainted Giuseppe Allamano, founder of the Consolata Missions.
During the audience with Card. Marcello Semeraro, prefect for the Causes of Saints, the Pope today authorized the Dicastery to promulgate the Decrees regarding: the miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Giuseppe Allamano, founding priest of the Institute of the Consolata Missions, born in Castelnuovo Don Bosco on 21 January 1851 and died in Turin on 16 February 1926; and the miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Carlo Acutis, a lay faithful, born on 3 May 1991 in London and died on 12 October 2006 in Monza.
But it doesn’t end here, because in addition to Acutis and Allamano, the blessed Emanuele Ruiz and seven companions, of the Order of Friars Minor, and Francis, Abdel Mooti and Raffaele Massabki, lay faithful, killed in hatred of the Faith in Damascus will also be saints , in Syria, between 9 and 10 July 1860. The Pope has in fact approved the favorable votes of the ordinary session of the cardinal and bishop fathers for their canonization, and has decided to convene a Consistory, which will also concern the canonization of Blessed Acutis , Allamano, Marie-Léonie Paradis and Elena Guerra.
A further decree also concerns the recognition of “heroic virtues” of the servant of God Enrico Medifaithful layman, born on 26 April 1911 in Porto Recanati and died in Rome on 26 May 1974.
The professor. Medi, physicist and scientific communicator, director of the National Institute of Geophysics since 1949 and vice president of Euratom since 1958, was a well-known television face in the era of astronautical explorations: on 20 July 1969 he commented on and participated in the long live TV broadcast of landing on the Moon from Rome together with journalists Tito Stagno, Andrea Barbato, Piero Forcella and Ruggero Orlando. Medi thus takes on the title of “venerable”.
The miracle recognized today which will lead to the proclamation of the sanctity of Carlo Acutis, as it is considered an inexplicable fact and occurred through his intercession – after the one previously served for the beatification – concerns a girl from Costa Rica, a student in Italy, who underwent surgery for a trauma cranial due to an accident. She emerged from her desperate conditions thanks to the intercession of the blessed, invoked by her mother.
Carlo Acutis represents “the sanctity of everyday life” because his life was “a continuous prayer”: this is how his mother Antonia Salzano describes him, speaking to ANSA after today’s announcement. “A normal boy who opened his heart to Christ. And made his normality holy”, she adds. The Acutis family is divided between Milan, where he runs a company, and Assisi, where the boy asked to be buried, being then moved to the church of Santa Maria Maggiore after being proclaimed venerable.
His tomb, with his body visible, is visited by thousands of pilgrims every year. Carlo Acutis has a brother and a sister both born after his passing. “A miracle that he announced to me in a dream”, says the mother. “There is great emotion – the woman continues – also because usually when saints are proclaimed the parents are already deceased. A joy that we share with all those in the world who pray to Carlo every day, who write to us about him and talk to us of his miracles”.
And the archbishop of Milan, Msgr., also expresses the joy of their respective Churches. Mario Delpini (“a sign to encourage adolescents to have self-esteem, to cultivate bold hopes, to deny the sadness of the world”) and the bishop of Assisi Msgr. Domenico Sorrentino (“a boost to our enthusiasm in Christian coherence and in the proclamation of the Gospel”).
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