Millennial and Gen Z Catholics love Carlo Acutis. Here's why
Ahead of Carlo Acutis’ beatification this week, people who knew the young computer programmer shared their memories of his love for the poor.
“With his savings, he bought sleeping bags for homeless people and in the evening he brought them some hot drinks,” Antonia Salzano, Acutis’ mother, recalled at an event in Assisi Oct. 5.
“He said it was better to have one less pair of shoes and able to do an additional good work [with money not spent on shoes],” she remembered.
The Italian teenager, who loved soccer and video games, also spent his time volunteering at a soup kitchen in Milan run by the Capuchins and Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.
Acutis was religious from a young age, despite his mother saying his family had rarely attended church.
From childhood he showed great charity towards others. His love was extraordinary, first of all for his parents and then for the poor, the homeless, the marginalized and the elderly abandoned and alone,” Nicola Gori, the postulator of Acutis’ cause, has said.
“He used the savings from his weekly pocket money to help the beggars and those who slept outdoors. He organized fairs in the parish to help the missions with the funds raised.”
Acutis will be beatified in Assisi in the Basilica of St. Francis Oct. 10. He was buried in Assisi in 2006 at his request because of his love for St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of the poor.
“Carlo had a special bond with Assisi. He had Assisi in his heart. He said it was the city where he felt happiest,” his mother said.
When he died, at the funeral, the church was full of poor people. Everyone else wondered what they were doing there. Well, Carlo used to help them in secret,” said Nicola Gori, who represented Acutis’s beatification case.
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