More than 2,500 Blessed Carlo Acutis relics have been officially distributed throughout the world

Marina Rosati, director of the Communication Office of the Diocese of Assisi, where Carlo Acutis is buried, confirmed that “more than 2,500 relics” of the saint, which will be canonized on April 27 in Rome on the occasion of the jubilee of adolescents, have been “distributed by the world”, as a tangible expression of the fervor that the young Catholic known as the “influencer of God” or the “Millennial Holy”.

Speaking to ACI Press, Rosati explained that the relics cannot be freely required by any person but that they can only be requested by priests or religious through their own bishop. “

The head of the diocese must write in turn a formal request aimed at his counterpart, Mons. Domenico Sorrentino, the Bishop of Assisi, who is commissioned to manage it.

In that letter, the reasons for the relic of the Italian blessed who died in 2006 at 15 years of a fulminant cancer and “specify the place where the relic will be exposed” should be explained well. For example, “for a certain parish, a hospital or a place that you want to trust Carlo Acutis,” Rosati explained.

The delivery and custody of these sacred objects is done with great care. “All relics are registered with a progressive numbering that allows us to know where they are already granted,” Rosati said.

Similarly, he clarified that “they cannot be sent by mail.” “It is necessary to collect them in person, here in the sanctuary of the Ribbageeither by the direct interested party or by another person, through a written and signed delegation, ”he said.

A few weeks ago, Mons. Sorrentino denounced the existence of illegal Internet auctions that offer the possibility of getting an alleged Actis relic. The Prelate filed a complaint with the Italian police, which is already investigating what happened. Apparently, there is an auction house that offers a hair relic of the next saint.

However, these relics that circulate online do not have any official guarantee.

Acutis, however, is not the only saint affected. “On the Internet there is a relic market of several saints, such as our Francisco de Asís, with a price list included. Something impossible to accept,” the prelate lamented in statements to the media.

Known for his deep devotion to the Eucharist and for having documented Eucharistic miracles on a website he designed, Acutis will be canonized and, therefore, proposed by the Catholic Church as a model of contemporary holiness.

Rosati also said that Acutis’s family “should not give any official permission because Carlo’s body was formally donated, by notarial act, to the Church of Assisi, which guarded it with heat.”

In any case, he recorded that not only the Diocese of Assisi has the exclusive competence of Acutis’s relics in this phase prior to the canonization, since “the postulation cause is also legitimized to distribute the relics following the same criteria of the diocese.”

The devotion to Carlo Acutis has spread throughout the world and there are several countries that have their relics: “The country has more is undoubtedly Italy, followed by Poland that also has a large number, as well as Ireland and other European nations, but some relics have even reached India, the Philippines, United States, Latin America and China.”