Carlo Acutis Approved for Canonization

News broke from the Vatican that Pope Francis approved a miracle attributed to Blessed Carlo Acutis.

Acutis, an Italian computer-coding teenager who died of cancer in 2006, is known for his great devotion to the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.

In 2022, Valeria Valverde, a 21-year-old from Costa Rica, was injured during a bicycle accident in Florence during her studies and was near death.

According to the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, Valverde underwent an emergency craniotomy to reduce intracranial pressure. Yet, her condition was serious. Her mother traveled to Assisi to visit Acutis’s tomb and prayed for her healing.

On the sixth day, she was able to breathe on her own and recover the use of her upper limbs, and her speech. Ten days after her mother’s pilgrimage, Valverde was released from intensive care. Further tests showed that the hemorrhagic right temporal cortical contusion in her brain had completely disappeared.

The pope approved the miracle of Acutis intercession in a decree on May 23rd.

Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi, who is currently in Rome for a meeting of the Italian bishops’ conference, welcomed the news that Acutis will be canonized.

“The Church in Assisi is in celebration,” he said. “I plan to arrive in Assisi this evening to thank the Lord in a Eucharistic celebration. But as of now, I join the faithful who are in the shrine for a prayer of praise.”

“May the Lord continue his work through the witness of Blessed Carlo. May he obtain for us from the Lord the grace to love him as he loved him, especially in the holy Eucharist.”

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