CV NEWS FEED // A relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis, the first millennial to be beatified, is set to travel to Ireland for the fifth time in May.
According to an emailed news release from the Diocese of Assisi, Italy, the relic is a piece of Blessed Acutis’ heart. The relic will travel to parishes within the Irish Archdiocese of Armagh and the Diocese of Down and Conor from May 11 to 14.
The news release added that the relic will also be venerated at Benburb Priory, founded by the Servite Order. The order is significant, as Blessed Carlo was baptized at a Servite church in Chelsea, England in 1991.
Blessed Carlo Acutis is best known for being a “modern-day blessed” with a strong devotion to the Eucharist, and for his computer programming skills, which he used to create a Eucharistic miracles website that still exists today.
He was born in 1991 to non-practicing Catholic Italian parents. Nonetheless, he remained a devout Catholic all his life.
Blessed Acutis was diagnosed with leukemia as a teenager, and died in 2006. He was buried in Assisi per his request.
His cause for canonization was officially opened in 2012, and he was declared Venerable by Pope Francis in 2018. In 2020, he was beatified in Assisi.
According to the news release from the Diocese of Assisi, the relic of Blessed Acutis’ heart has now traveled to Ireland several times, each time drawing thousands of pilgrims eager to venerate it.
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