Pope Francis paved the way for the canonization of the first saint of the millennial generation on Thursday, attributing a second miracle to a 15-year-old Italian computer whiz who died of leukemia in 2006.

Carlo Acutis, born on May 3, 1991, in London and then moved with his Italian parents to Milan as a child, was the youngest contemporary person to be beatified by Francis in Assisi in 2020.

Acutis, who died of acute leukemia on Oct. 12, 2006, was put on the road to sainthood after Pope Francis approved the first miracle attributed to him: The healing of a 7-year-old Brazilian boy from a rare pancreatic disorder after coming into contact with an Acutis’ relic, a piece of one of his T-shirts.

According to Vatican News, the second miracle recognized on Thursday is related to a woman from Costa Rica, who in July 2022 made a pilgrimage to Acutis’ tomb in Assisi to pray for the healing of her daughter, who had suffered severe head trauma after falling from her bicycle. The young woman started showing signs of recovery immediately after her mother’s plea.

so the vatican has all of this kids clothes preserved as relics and they cut off pieces of his t-shirts so they can mail them to cancer patients. just imagining like, spongebob, batman, metallica t-shirts being guarded as holy relics in rome for centuries to come.

  • Dolores [love/loves]
    hexbear
    77
    1 month ago

    has all of this kids clothes preserved as relics and they cut off pieces of his t-shirts so they can mail them to cancer patients

    whatever happened to chopping off some bones as relics this is tacky as fuck

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
      hexbear
      47
      1 month ago

      For real, my church had gilded skulls and finger bones, in addition to all the chalices and holy hand grenades

      Really put me on my path to being a morbid little kid

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
        hexbear
        34
        1 month ago

        Same. My parents wondered why I got into goth shit and demonology. Church, guys. Church made me get into it.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
      hexbear
      16
      1 month ago

      Young people these days are so woke that they don't even want to chop up a corpse for souvenirs any more.