2025-01-17
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Inside the Vatican's Secret Saint Making Process By Linda Kinsler As a child growing up in Milan,
Carlo Acutis collected stories of miracles.
He wrote about the time when, in 1411, wine turned to blood in a castle chapel in Ludbreg, Croatia,
of how in 1630 a pastor in Canozio, Italy,
saved his town from a flood by blessing the raging waters of how.
In 1906, a priest on the island of Tamarco, Colombia,
held up a reliquary on the beach to stop an approaching tsunami.
Acutis, 11 years old and a devout Catholic,
began typing up these stories and posting them on his website,
which he styled as a virtual museum of miraculous events.
A section on the site invited visitors to discover how many friends you have in heaven
and to read stories of young saints.
Acutis hoped to one day join their ranks.
He was convinced that he would die before he reached adulthood and told his mother,
Antonia that he would perish of a broken vein in his brain.
He wanted to be buried in the town of Assisi, where his family had a summer home.