What’s Up with Carlo’s Canonization?
We Will Know on or after June 13Blessed Carlo Acutis’s canonization will be discussed on June 13 as part of a meeting to decide dates for several beatified persons.
The Holy See Press Office said Pope Leo XIV will preside over a gathering of the Ordinary Public Consistory of Cardinals on June 13th when they will vote on several Causes of Canonization and the rescheduling of Blessed Carlo Acutis’.
The canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis was one of the most anticipated worldwide in years in part because of his youth, being a millennial, and the teen’s fascination and online exhibit of Eucharistic miracles from around the globe. Originally, Blessed Carlo’s canonization was to take place on Sunday, April 27, during the Jubilee of Adolescents, but was postponed following the death of Pope Francis.
Blessed Carlo Acutis is beloved in the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston for the same reasons as our brothers and sisters around the world, but also for four other reasons.
1. He was one of our Diocesan Eucharistic Congress Saints in 2023.
2. He is the patron of the National Eucharistic Revival 2022-2025.
3. He was venerated (relics) by the faithful in all six vicariates of WV in the Fall 2022.
4. Most significant – he is the namesake of our Catholic youth adventure camp – Camp Carlo- named in 2021.
Wait! Who was Carlo Acutis?
In 2006, Bl. Carlo Acutis died from leukemia. He was 15. From the time he was 11 he began compiling facts of Eucharistic miracles. Acutis used his love of the computer to share his fascination with the world by creating a website still maintained today by his friends and family (http://www.miracolieucaristici.org/en/Liste/list.html ). The site is presented in 17 languages and has downloadable posters for parishes and schools to have. It is truly a virtual museum with facts, images, and maps of the miracles from across the globe.
He believed “the more often we receive the Eucharist, the more we will become like Jesus, so that on this earth we will have a foretaste of heaven.”
Other beatified expected to be discussed for canonization at the June 13th meeting include Blessed Bartolo Longo of Italy; Blessed José Gregorio Hernández of Venezuela where he is known as “doctor of the poor;” Blessed Pietro To Rot of Papua New Guinea; Blessed Vincenza Maria Poloi, who founded the Sisters of Mercy in Verona; and Blessed Ignazio Maloyan, a bishop martyred during the Armenian genocide in 1915, according to Catholic News Agency.
