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Relics of Carlo Acutis visit Diocese of Kerry
By Tom Dennehy
The remarkable life of Blessed Carlo Acutis will be recalled when his relics will visit both the Holy Cross Dominican Church, Tralee and St. Vincent’s Church, Ballyferriter on the weekend of November 22nd. This affords all his many followers a chance to visit his relics and pray for the continuation of the great conversion revolution he has begun all over the world, especially among the youth.
Blessed Carlo Acutis, a young Italian teenager, soon to become a great saint, left an indelible mark before his untimely passing at the age of 15 years. His devotion to the Eucharist and his great love of Jesus led him to do extraordinary things including creating a website of Eucharistic miracles that have taken place around the world.
He has included 32 miracles in all and these Eucharistic miracles involve incidents in which the Eucharistic host has turned into human flesh and blood.
When scientifically examined by the world’s top scientists, they are astonished when told they come from a consecrated host. The tests show that the flesh comes from the left ventricle of the heart, the part which pumps the blood around the body and the blood is type AB. Even more astonishing, it is living tissue and the tests show that it is from a heart that has suffered terrible trauma. These miracles show that the words of Jesus come through when He said, “I am the living bread come down from Heaven. He who eats My flesh will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.” John 6;51-59.
Carlos was concerned that people were growing distant from the Church and the sacraments and he wanted to bring them back.
Carlos could not understand why stadiums were full of people and churches were empty. He would say, “They have to see, they have to understand that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist.” Carlos understood that we have a foretaste of Heaven on Earth when we receive the Eucharist.
In 2006, at the age of fifteen, Carlos developed a rare type of leukaemia. As he was dying, he said, “I am happy to die, because I lived my life without wasting even a minute of it on anything unpleasing to God.” He is buried in Assisi and his grave is now a great place of pilgrimage.
