Asisi, Italy (AP) – Pilgrims were flowing into the town of Talal, which dates back to the Middle Ages to nominate only two of the Catholic Church Most saints are famous, Francis Culre, but the latest – Carlo Akotis, the first Millennium saintWho will be distinguished on April 27.
“Saint Francis, St. Claire, of course, the important saints who were distinguished-but this is far from adolescence today. Carlo is like children.” “It is close to our time, which can show adolescents that they can love Jesus while he is an ordinary young man.”
The group lined up to enter Santuario Della Spogliazione – a sad church, also known as Santuario Magor, which is the place where St. Francis abandoned his family’s wealth more than 800 years ago. There, they arrived from the memorial in which Acuteis body is in full view of jeans, a heavy type shirt and sports shoes.
On that Saturday, hundreds of past – a priest and most prominent of the Azures Islands, a nun from Colombia and her emotional sisters, advanced a family with two teenagers near Venice. some RosaryOthers took personal photos or touched the protective glass in front of the apparently sleeping young man, who died due to leukemia in 15 in 2006 and generated dedication to amaze even Assisi’s bishop.
Reverend Dominico Surinino said: “I see here a volcano of grace explodes … I cannot believe my eyes.” When the bishop became two decades ago, the church was next to his residence off the main street “Nasit” by the crowds that visited the huge church of St. Francis.
Over the past year, more than a million pilgrims praised the honor of Acuteis, said Sorrentino, which he drew “a smiling way to live.”
A happy teenage image, usually in a red polo shirt and a backpack, is popular in souvenir stores throughout the city like Francis in his simple brown habit.
The store owner picked up a blessed symbol the first time that she went to the shrine and kept her attached to her critical record.
“I was really curious about this new saint that attracts young people,” said Silvia Palcocy.
Both the Church and his family describe Acuteis as an exceptionally religious boy, but he works otherwise Most of his contemporaries give up Organized religion.
“Carlo was not a foreign, he was an ordinary person. But if the light of the light of Christ was, life becomes unusual,” said his mother, Antonia Salzano Akotis, to Associated Press. “We always pray to the saints, and in the end, what did the saints do? They opened the doors of their lives to Christ.”
“Everyone was born original, but many pictures die,” she quoted one of her favorite son’s phrases.
She said: “The saint is the person who did not die like a copy, I realized that the holiness project that God has established forever for each of us, as we all should.”
Catholica was not raised herself when she had, Acuteis used to joking with her husband that her little son was “the little Buddha” because of a lack of selfishness, his interest in others, and a delightful obedience.
He has developed early interest in faith, such as the desire to enter every church to “say hello” to Jesus and Mary. Later, the Mass’s attendance began, He loves the blessed secret Praying in the rosary daily – while he was also entertaining with jokes his friends who were less interested in religion and more in going to nightclubs with their friends and smoking symptoms.
His mother said: “This was a way to hide his faith, because Carlo knew that his friends could not understand it.” “But Carlo was a witness, a silent witness through the value of friendship, through the value of generosity, helping his schoolmates, and defending adolescents who were intimidated.”
Actuis often helped the homeless and was not interested in the common motifs of a rich child in Milan, one of Europe Fashion and business capitals. He asked his parents to donate to the poor what they would go in a second husband of his sports shoes, and he insisted that he wanted to teach Christian education in his diocese instead of going on ski holidays in luxury resorts like his peers.
Reverend Enzo Fortonato, who spent most of his religious career there and head of the papal committee for the world day, said this denial of the concession is parallel to St. Francis, who was so devoted to Akotis to the extent that he asked the burial of Al -Asizi.
“There are more similarities with St. Francis. St. Francis left the churches and went to the squares to preach. Carlo Akotis realized that the public squares today are on the Internet, on the Internet,” said Fortonato. “This is the place where there are young people, this is the place where people live, so it lives and brings the Bible in those squares. This is one of the reasons that make it a webpiece, the Internet and social media.”
Especially condemning the sacred arrangement and the desire to share the Catholic belief that Jesus is literally present in it, Acute created an online exhibition about miracles as bread and wine became meat and blood over the centuries. His mother said he was used in thousands of diocese around the world.
For her, being a “bridge to Jesus” – even in his peripheral illness, which he faced without a complaint, is considered some eternal life – a more important legacy than any miracles or supernatural signs of nature.
To become a saint, however, Miracles need to witness. Suritino said that one of the ACUTIS sanctification process was the healing of a student in Costa Rica from a bicycle accident in Italy after her mother prayed.
Sabina Valsita often goes to the Acuteis shrine from the nearby city of Perugia with a group of her colleagues from mothers to pray for their children.
She said, “Carlo Akotis gives us peace.” “More importantly, it gives us certainty that God is a good father. You cannot ask for more.”
While it spoke outside the campus, a confirmation group of Lake Garda in northern Italy was praying in a circle through a group of jeans and its backpack, which stands next to a larger brutality than life.
Veronica Ibrahim, Veronica Ibrahim, said that she was studying Saint Francis and Acuteis, with a focus on the teenager’s association and his introduction to sitting to chat with anyone who seemed alone, “because even Ciao is important for those who are alone.”
Her son Mario Gerardi, 13, said that he shocked him the fact that Acuteis – when he was only older than him – “spoke with everyone, and nothing was allowed to annoy him but helped everyone.”
Although he does not think of the priesthood, Gerardi goes to the church every Sunday and plans to “always stay in this mentality” – perhaps even going to the daily mass.
Does he want to become a saint too?
“Well, let’s hope. Yes, right? Never say, who knows,” said the boy smiling.
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