SAINT CARLO ACUTIS BACKGROUND
Carlo Acutis was born on May 3, 1991, in London, England, and died on October 12, 2006, in Monza, Italy, succumbing to leukemia at the age of 15.
On September 7, 2025, Pope Leo XIV canonized Saint Carlo Acutis in St. Peter’s Square with an estimated 80,000 pilgrims present, including his parents and twin siblings who were born after he died.
Carlo Acutis built multilingual websites to spread Catholic teaching, later earning him the nickname “God’s influencer”.
An hour before the mass, St Peter’s Square had filled with tens of thousands of pilgrims from around the world, many of them millennial Italians and Americans, as Acutis’s family looked on. The witnesses described the atmosphere as joyous and party-like.
Pope Francis beatified Carlo Acutis after two miracles: Carlo healed a 3-year-old boy in Brazil in 2013 who had been diagnosed with a malformation of his pancreas since birth and Carlo’s intercession involving a 21-year old girl from Costa Rica named Valeria Valverde, who was near death after seriously injuring her head in a bicycle accident while studying in Florence in 2022.
BIBLIOGRAPHY – HOLY APOSTLES STUDENTS & ALUMNI PUBLICATIONS AND ST. CARLO ACUTIS
Cameron, Fr. Ben J. Healing the Deepest Wounds. St. Louis, MO: Mater Media 2024.
DuBay, Jenny. Don’t Plant Your Seeds Among Thorns: A Catholic’s Guide to Reorganizing and Healing from Domestic Abuse. St Louis, MO: En Route Books & Media 2024.
DuBay, Jenny. World Between Worlds. St. Louis, MO: En Route Books & Media 2025.
Kubick, Andrew S. Transplanting the Womb: A Catholic Bioethical Analysis. Boomall, PA: National Catholic Bioethics Center 2025.
Menzes, Fr. Wade L.J. The Four Last Things: A Catechetical Guide to Death, Judgement, Heaven, and Hell. Irondale, AL: EWTN Publishing 2017.
Mercier, Bryan. Counterfeit Spirituality: Exposing False Gods. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing 2020.
Mercier, Bryan. Why Do You Believe in God? Milford, CT: Bryan Mercier self-published 2016.
Newsome, Deacon Matthew. The Devout Life: A Modern Guide to Practical Holiness with St. Francis de Sales. Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press 2023.
Plante, Jeff. O Blessed Host: Gospel Reflections. Bloomington, IN: West Bow Press 2024.
Ramirez, Allison. The Divided Kingdom. Seattle, WA: Trinity Tree Publishing 2023
Reilly, Christopher M. AI and Sin: How Today’s Technology Motivates Evil. St. Louis, MO: En Route Books & Media 2025.
Stokes, Ann. Going Solo: Encouraging Single Catholics. St. Louis, MO: Enroute Books & Media 2025.
Stokes, Ann. Will the Real Church Please Stand! A Conversion Journey from Fundamental Baptist to Roman Catholic. St Louis, MO: En Route Books & Media 2023.
BIBLIOGRAPHY – ST. CARLO ACUTIS
Conquer, Fr. Will. Carlo Acutis: A Millennial Saint. Manchester, NH: Sophia Institute Press 2021
Gori, Nicola. Carlo Acutis: The First Millennial Saint. Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing 2021.
Leahy, Brendan. In Conversation with Carlo Acutis. New York City, NY: New City Press 2025.
ARCHIVAL BOOK SELECTED
Title: The Life of our Most Holy Father St. Benedict Being the Second Book of the Dialogues of St. Gregory the Great with the Rule of the Sem Holy Patriarch
Language: English
Publisher: “One of the Benedictine Fathers of St. Michael near Hereford
Date/Place Published: Rome 1895