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Assisi, Italy – 1 March 2025
1. Nuns at the tomb of Carlo Acutis looking at his embalmed body
2. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Sabina Falcetta, pilgrim visiting the tomb of Carlo Acutis: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 3++
"Carlo Acutis gives us peace. Most importantly he gives us the certainty that God is a good father.”
3. Pilgrims stopping by Acutis’ tomb and woman touching protective glass
4. Nuns at the tomb of Carlo Acutis looking at his embalmed body
5. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Mario Girardi, 13, pilgrim: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOT 6++
"His story says he was a boy, only two or three years older than me, who spoke with everyone, didn’t judge people, but helped everyone.”
6. Statue of Acutis helping Christ on the cross
7. Various of figures and magnets of Acutis on sale in store
8. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Antonia Salzano, mother of Carlo Acutis: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 9 TO 14++
"Carlo wasn’t an alien. He was a normal person. But if it’s illuminated by the light of Christ, a life becomes extraordinary. We always pray to the saints, and in the end, what did saints do? They opened the doors of their lives to Christ. Because a saint is born like the rest of us, we are all original when we are born. As Carlo said, many die as photocopies, and a saint is the one who does not die as a photocopy, one who carried forth his plan of sainthood which God, from all eternity, planned for each of us, something which we should all do.”
9. Child crosses himself in front of tomb of Acutis
10. Pilgrims taking leaflets from display in church
11. Interior of the upper Basilica of St. Francis
13. Pilgrims by church
14. Zoom in on heart-shaped pictures of Acutis in store
STORYLINE:
Pilgrims have been pouring into a medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated saints, Francis and Clare, but its newest – Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, who will be canonized in a month on April 27.
Acutis, who was born to Italian parents in London, died of leukaemia in Italy in 2006 at the age of 15.
Francis beatified him in 2020 in Assisi, where his tomb draws a steady stream of pilgrims, and he will be the youngest contemporary figure to be canonized.
Touted as the “patron saint of the internet,” Acutis used his natural tech talent to create a website to catalogue miracles and took care of websites for some local Catholic organizations.
Acutis was buried in Assisi at his own requests, having become an admirer of St. Francis of Assisi for his dedication to the poor.
The Umbrian town was one of his favourite travel destinations.
"Carlo Acutis gives us peace, most importantly he gives us the certainty that God is a good father,” said Sabina Falcetta, who goes often to Acutis’ shrine from the nearby city of Perugia with a group of fellow mothers to pray for their children.
In Assisi, groups of pilgrims line up every day to enter the Santuario della Spogliazione – a sombre church marking the spot where more than 800 years ago St. Francis renounced his family’s wealth.
Every day thousands of pilgrims pray by the monument where Acutis’ embalmed body is on view, wearing jeans, a sweatshirt and sneakers, on display for veneration.
Early in March, hundreds filed past, a group of nuns and many families with teens, some clutching rosaries, others took selfies or touched the protective glass in front of the seemingly sleeping young man.
AP video shot by Chris Warde-Jones
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