The Diocese of Assisi in Italy began in these days the pilgrimage of a relic of the Blessed Carlo Acutis, within the framework of the celebrations in view of its canonization on April 27 in the Vatican.
According to one use From the Diocese of Assistrate Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, the pilgrimage began in the vicariate of Santa Maria de los Ángeles, where the Sanctuary of the dispossession is, where the remains of the Blessed rest, and will continue until March 20.
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The Vicar of Pastoral of the Diocese of Assis Tomorrow with about fifty young people from the SOG (Youth Orientation Service) ”.
“Other moments are already planned with the Blessed relic because we want the entire Diocesan territory to prepare for the great and beautiful event of the canonization that we will live in the Plaza de San Pedro on April 27,” adds the priest.
“And prayer, with the intercession of Blessed, is certainly the best method to approach God,” says Father Burgus.
The next stages, says the diocesan note, will be in Gualdo Tadino on February 6, in the Sanctuary of Divine Love, where at 9:00 p.m. (local time) Holy Mass will take place first and then the Eucharistic Adoration until midnight.
On Friday 7 at 7:30 there will Sigillo rest, at 12:30 at the Bambino Gesù Institute, at 4:30 p.m. The Concatedral de San Benedict.
Then it will be the turn of the Vicariate of Bastia Umbra in the parish of San Marco Evangelista on February 13, while on the 14th, Valentine’s Day, the relic will move to the Vicariate of Nocera Umbra, with the veneration of it on the 20th of March and the celebration of the Mass in the Cathedral of San Feliciano.
The culminating moment will be lived in Assisi on March 28 and 29 on the occasion of the Lenten Initiative “24 hours for the Lord”, promoted by Pope Francis. In this jubilee year, this initiative will be dedicated to hope.
Who was Carlo Acutis?
Carlo Acuti, was a teenager who died of leukemia in 2006, with only 15 years of age, was beatified on October 10, 2020 in Assisi (Italy), where his remains rest.
He was a video game fan and a computer programmer who loved the Eucharist, the Virgin Mary and football. The miracle that will make it Holy has as its protagonist a young woman from Costa Rica.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.