A first-class relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis, who will be the Church’s first millennial saint when canonised next year, has been secured by Our Lady of Dolours, Chatswood, in the Broken Bay Diocese.
The relic, a strand of hair, will go on display at Our Lady of Dolours later this year.
People throughout the world, especially students and young people, have prayed for the canonisation of Blessed Carlo, who died of leukemia at the age of 15.
Born in London in May 1991, Blessed Carlo grew up in Milan, Italy, and loved computer games, the internet, and programming but, most of all, he loved God.
Although no date has been announced by the Vatican for Blessed Carlo’s canonisation, it will be sometime during the Jubilee Year next year.
“I have been deeply touched by the joy expressed by so many with the news we have received a relic of Carlo Acutis,” Chatswood’s parish priest and Broken Bay Vicar General of Fr David Ranson said.
“Normally obtaining such a relic is a lengthy process, often taking months.
“Yet securing the relic for Our Lady of Dolours was expedited with astonishing swiftness, underscoring how miracles manifest through the faithful in the most extraordinary of ways.”
When Fr Ranson read in early June that Blessed Carlo had been baptised in the Servite Parish of Our Lady of Dolours in Chelsea, London, he immediately initiated the process to secure a relic from the Bishop of Assisi, where the future saint is buried.
Broken Bay Bishop Anthony Randazzo prepared the official letter of request, granting a friend of a parishioner the right to collect the relic from the Bishop of Assisi.
Barely 24 hours from the official request received by the Bishop of Assisi, and within one week of Fr David initiating the process, the relic was on its way to Chatswood.
The Parish of Our Lady of Dolours, Chatswood is now eagerly planning for the installation of the relic on Blessed Carlo’s feast day on October 12.
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