Carlo Acutis tomb is opened for public veneration in Assisi, Italy, Oct. 1, 2020. Photos courtesy of Assisi diocese. / nullRome Newsroom, Jun 2, 2022 / 07:25 am (CNA).Visitors to Assisi can once again see Blessed Carlo Acutis, the first millennial to be beatified in the Catholic Church, dressed in jeans and tennis shoes through a viewing glass on his tomb.Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino removed the panel covering Acutis tomb on June 1, reopening it for permanent public veneration.With the lifting of Italy s former travel restrictions for tourists, many international pilgrims will now have the opportunity to see the young Blessed for the first time.The archbishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino said that he hopes that all who come to pray at the tomb will "open themselves to the light of the Gospel and have a profound experience of faith."Acutis tomb is located in Assisi s Sanctuary of the Renunciation, a part of the Church of St. Mary Major. The sanctuary is located on
Carlo Acutis’ tomb is opened for public veneration in Assisi, Italy, Oct. 1, 2020. Photos courtesy of Assisi diocese. / null
Rome Newsroom, Jun 2, 2022 / 07:25 am (CNA).
Visitors to Assisi can once again see Blessed Carlo Acutis, the first mill.
A reliquary containing relics of Blessed Carlo Acutis at the Church of Sant'Angela Merici in Rome, Oct 11, 2021. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.Rome Newsroom, Mar 18, 2022 / 06:35 am (CNA).A relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis heart is coming to New York in the first week of April.Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi will personally take the first-class relic from Italy to New York City on April 3. The relic is a fragment of Acutis pericardium, the membrane that surrounds and protects the heart. It will be present for the U.S. bishops National Eucharistic Revival campaign, of which the Italian Blessed is a patron.In the Catholic Church, relics are physical objects that have a direct association with the saints. Veneration of relics is a Scripture-based tradition practiced in the Church throughout the centuries.Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, will offer a Mass with the relic in the Church of St. Rita in the Bronx on April 7. Acutis was a young Catholic from Italy .
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