By Pablo Santiesteban / October 6, 2024 | 18:35
The reliquary contains a piece of skin of what has been known as the most media saint of the 21st century, Carlo Acutis. Credit: social networks.
A sample of the remains of Blessed Carlo Acutis will go on pilgrimage to the main Catholic temples of Los Ríos. Find out who the so-called “God influencer” was.
The Diocese of Valdivia, through its Youth Ministry, will organize the pilgrimage of a relic of the Italian Blessed Carlo Acutis, a figure that draws the attention of current young Catholics and is considered the “holy influencer” of the 21st century.
The relic is of the first grade and is a piece of skin from the body of Carlo Acutis, a young man who died in 2006 at the age of 15, which will be displayed in a reliquary to the faithful in different Catholic churches in the Los Ríos Region.
Carlo Acutis stood out for his life of piety and his taste for technology and sports and during his short life he stood out for being a kind of Catholic “influencer”, making videos about the life of Jesus Christ and the Eucharist and documenting 108 of the so-called Eucharistic miracles with the consecrated host throughout the world.
Many of the original videos that Carlo made are still on the web, mainly on YouTube, and over time other videos about his life have gone viral on other social media platforms. For this reason, Acutis has been known as the “millennial saint” or “the influencer of God.”
The young man was born in 1991 and lived an ordinary life, but one of commitment and closeness to God and his spiritual life. In his adolescence he fell ill with leukemia and assumed his condition and his eventual death with courage and faith, without despair.
On the day of Carlo’s funeral, his parents – who were not practicing Catholics – were surprised to see that many people they did not know came to say goodbye to him and told them about his social action activities with the poor, children, immigrants and many other people. , activities of which they were not one hundred percent aware.
The young man was buried in Assisi, at his own request, as he considered himself an admirer of the spirituality of Saint Francis.
Way to be holy
The name of Carlo Acutis began to be known when in 2013 it became known about the inexplicable recovery of a seven-year-old Brazilian boy who was cured of a pancreatic disorder after praying to Acutis and coming into contact with one of his relics, in the form from a piece of his shirt. This miracle led Pope Francis to beatify him in October 2020.
The second miracle that would lead him to the altars was known on May 23, 2024 when Valeria Valverde, a 21-year-old girl from Costa Rica, was on the verge of death with a head injury after suffering a serious bicycle accident. The young woman was healed after her mother visited the grave of the young “influencer” and asked for her intercession to heal her.
The visit to Los Ríos
The relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis will arrive in the region on October 20 and its first stop will be La Unión. In the capital of Ranco, the relic will be exhibited in the San José parish on the 20th and 21st and will later be taken to the Inmaculada Concepción parish of Río Bueno where it will remain from October 22 to 23.
On October 24, the reliquary will be sent to the church of the San Pedro Vicariate in Lago Ranco and on the 25th to the San Conrado de Futrono parish.
The relic arrives in Valdivia on October 26 to be exhibited in the Preciosa Sangre parish, on the 27th it will be in the Nuestra Señora del Carmen parish in Collico, on the 28th it will be in the San Pablo parish and on the 29th it will be in the Inmaculada Concepción Institute of Valdivia .
In Paillaco it will remain on October 30 and 31 in the Nuestra Señora de Lourdes parish and then the relic will be moved to Los Lagos on November 1 to the Todos los Santos parish.
The last stop will be again in Valdivia when the reliquary is taken to the Nuestra Señora de la Merced parish, where it will remain on November 2 and 3.
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