The exhibit created by Blessed Carlos Acutis travels the world thanks partly to the support of the Missionaries of the Most Holy Eucharist, based in the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon in France. It has been translated into 17 languages.
Newsroom (20/12/2022 12:41 PM, Gaudium Press) — Guiding Light Academy is a Canadian elementary private Catholic school located in Mississauga, Ontario. This week, the students benefited from the visit of a travelling exhibition created by a young Italian saint: Blessed Carlo Acutis.
Carlo Acutis, an English-born Italian Catholic teenager who died in 2006, was beatified on Oct. 10, 2020, in Assisi.
Carlo Acutis was born May 3, 1991, in London, where his parents worked. A few months later, his parents, Andrea Acutis and Antonia Salzano moved to Milan. Carlo seemed to have a special love for God from a young age, even though his parents weren’t especially devout. His mom said that before Carlo, she went to Mass only for her First Communion, her confirmation, and her wedding. But as a young child, Carlo loved to pray the rosary. After his First Communion, he went to Mass as often as possible, and he made Holy Hours before or after Mass. He went to confession weekly. He asked his parents to take him on pilgrimages — to the places of the saints and the sites of Eucharistic miracles.
Beginning with his first communion, he wondered how to convince the whole world of the real presence of Christ at Mass. This desire led him to create an exhibition on Eucharistic miracles. While visiting the Rimini Meeting exhibition in 2002, Carlo organized a show on the Eucharistic miracles approved by the church. It was a challenging job involving his family for about two and a half years. The exhibition’s spiritual effects could not have been predicted before its opening. Through research on the Internet, he created a list of 132 of them. He was a programmer and built a website cataloguing and promoting Eucharistic miracles. On the site, he told people that “the more often we receive the Eucharist, the more we will become like Jesus, so that on this earth we will have a foretaste of heaven.”
Acutis’ immense research work bore posthumous fruit. His dream became a reality: a travelling exhibition that has been touring the world ever since. Acutis had a specific goal in creating the exhibit. “He wanted visitors to change their view of the Eucharist,” Carlo’s mission was to bring people to the Eucharist, a task He is still doing in heaven.
The exhibit created by Blessed Carlos Acutis travels the world thanks partly to the support of the Missionaries of the Most Holy Eucharist, based in the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon in France. It has been translated into 17 languages.
- Raju Hasmukh
