“Eucharist Is the Highway To Heaven.” – St. Carlo Acutis.
On May 3rd, 1991, in London, England, a saint was born. Carlo Acutis is a young man who has an interesting origin story on his way to canonization to sainthood. You may have heard of him as “The First Millennial Saint.”
At a young age, Acutis moved from London to Milan, Italy. In Milan, he discovered a little chapel known as Santa Maria Segreta. After attending mass at the chapel, he became a parishioner. Whenever Acutis would attend church, he slowly started transcending into having a deep love for the Eucharist.
He would often study the Eucharist by taking books out of the library and recording the Eucharistic miracles. As a result of this, he published his work into a database, and that website is still active to this day! For instance, “He was able to catalog 187 Eucharistic miracles during a period of two-and-a-half years. Through his expertise in computer programming, Carlo sought to share the profound reality of the Real Presence with others, inviting them to encounter Jesus in the Eucharist” (Catholic Answers).
In addition, Acutis influenced his classmates to go on to the internet, exploring his website to learn how the Eucharistic miracles were performed, and ended up helping others get in touch with God. Shortly after this, he was unfortunately diagnosed with leukemia and died in 2006, at just 15 years old.
Acutis once said, “Mom, don’t be afraid. Since Jesus became a man, death has become the passage towards life, and we don’t need to flee it. Let us prepare ourselves to experience something extraordinary in eternal life” (Catholic Answers). These words put his mom into tears, and she was so moved by his courageous and compassionate faith. His mother attended the canonization ceremony at St. Peter’s Basilica on September 7, 2025.
Acutis’ canonization was Pope Leo’s first in his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church. Furthermore, the message that he decided to put out there was “there is no age limit on Sainthood.”
Citations: ( Source: Catholic Answers.).
https://www.catholic.com/tract/the-life-of-carlo-acutis-biography-legacy-and-devotion
