Relics of Carlo Acutis to arrive in Kerry today

Carlo Acutis was a London born Italian website designer

The relics of a teenager who was beatified by Pope Francis in 2020 will be on display in St Vincent’s Church, Ballyferriter this Friday and Saturday.

Carlo Acutis was a London born Italian website designer who documented Eucharistic miracles and approved Marian apparitions for the Vatican before his death, at the age of 15, in 2006.

He is affectionately known as the Patron Saint of the Internet.

A designated area for prayer to Carlo Acutis in St Vincent’s Church, Ballyferriter

Despite suffering from leukaemia, Carlo was noted for his cheerful disposition, for helping others and for his devotion to the Eucharist which became a theme of his life.

After a second miracle attributed to the intercession of Acutis was confirmed in May 2024, Pope Francis granted approval for his canonization.

In November 2019 a miracle in Brazil was attributed to Acutis’s intercession when a teenage boy was allegedly cured of pancreatic cancer after he and his mother had prayed to Acutis during a prayer service.

In 2022 a Costa Rican woman who was given little chance of survival after suffering a brain haemorrhage prayed for the intercession of Acutis and visited his tomb.

Bishop Ray Browne: Mass

The same day, she began to breathe independently again and was able to walk the next day with all evidence of the illness having disappeared.

The rector of Santa Maria Maggiore in Assisi, where Carlo’s tomb is housed, said that his body is fully integral, though not intact.

Since the beatification ceremony in October 2020, his relics have been on display with his tomb in the church.

The relics of Carlo Acutis will arrive in Ballyferriter at 2.00pm this Friday with blessings with the relics until 6.00pm when Mass will be celebrated.

Mass and the anointing of the sick will take place on Saturday at 10.00am with further blessings until 4.00pm when Mass will be celebrated by Bishop Ray Browne.

Members of the public have been invited to bring written petitions to be placed in a box before the altar.

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