one that listed miracles<\/a>. He enjoyed playing on his PlayStation too, although limited its use to an hour a week \u2013 a discipline that has proven appealing to a Catholic hierarchy that has sounded the alarm about a tech-driven society.<\/p>\nIn October 2006, at age 15, he fell ill with what was quickly diagnosed as acute leukaemia. Within days, he was dead. He was entombed in Assisi, known for its association with another popular saint, St Francis.<\/p>\n
Salzano told the Guardian the family was not particularly religious, but her son showed a deep devotion to the Catholic faith from a young age. \u201cHe would go to mass and do the rosary each day,\u201d she said, adding that he was a child who \u201ccould not be indifferent to sorrow\u201d. \u201cWe lived in the centre of Milan in a building surrounded by beggars. He wanted to help them, speak to them, bring them food and blankets.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added that Acutis was otherwise an average child, hanging out with friends or playing sports. \u201cCarlo was an internet geek, but he had the temperance to use technology for good, and was not exploited by it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The movement that had built up around Acutis was evident from the day he died, as seriously ill people began praying to him for cures. His funeral was attended by a host of people he had helped, among them immigrants and bullied children.<\/p>\n
His mother claims it was around the time of his funeral that he started to work miracles, and last year the late Pope Francis credited Acutis with two miracles. The first, the Vatican said, involved the recovery of a boy in Brazil from a rare congenital disease affecting his pancreas; the second was the healing of a student in Florence with bleeding on the brain from a head trauma, and whose mother had prayed at Acutis\u2019s tomb in Assisi.<\/p>\n
The speed at which Acutis has been canonised, especially compared with Frassati, shows how keen the church is to attract more young people.<\/p>\n
Frassati lived from 1901 to 1925, dying of polio age 24. He was born into a prominent Turin family but was known for his devotion to serving the poor and carrying out acts of charity while spreading his faith to his friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pope Leo XIV has declared the London-born Italian Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006 age 15, the Catholic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-125727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}