(5 Apr 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Assisi, Italy – 2 April 2025
1. Pull focus from Carlo Acutis’ heart relic to lit candles in front
2. Woman praying in front of Acutis’ portrait and heart relic
3. Pan right from Acutis’ portrait to his heart relic
4. Close of Acutis’ heart relic
5. Mid of women looking at relic
6. Tilt down of relic with an inscription at top reading (Italian) “Eucharist. My highway to the sky” to inscription at base reading (Latin), “The heart of Blessed Carlo Acutis”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome, Italy – 3 April 2025
7. Mid of Bishop of Assisi, Domenico Sorrentino, speaking
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Domenico Sorrentino, Bishop of Assisi:
“The relics are little, little fragments of the body, to say that, that body is blessed and it explains to us the closeness of God to us. So it’s not something magic. It’s not something that works automatically, it works through faith.”
9. Close of cross being worn by Sorrentino
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Domenico Sorrentino, Bishop of Assisi:
“The parents of Carlo gave the body of Carlo to the diocese (of Assisi). So the body of Carlo, so to say, is under my personal responsibility. And when I saw this market, I went quickly to the police and said this is something to stop.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Assisi, Italy – 2 April 2025
11. Close of the heart relic
12. Mid of Rev. Christopher Pujol touching glass display containing the relic
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Rev. Christopher Pujol, priest from the Diocese of Greensburg, Pennsylvania:
“I think it’s always important to remember what the church teaches about the care of holy relics, which means that those relics are always given to a place for veneration and for intercession, so they’re either meant to be placed in a chapel like here, or put into an altar for the celebration of mass. So it’s always a great tragedy when this happens, and so we continue to pray for people’s conversion.”
14. Mid of women looking at relic
15. Close of woman lighting candle
16. Various of women standing in front of portrait and heart relic of Acutis and taking photos
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Larry Kulick, Bishop of the Diocese of Greensburg, Pennsylvania:
"This stop today in Assisi has allowed us the opportunity to see the body and the relics of Saint Carlo Acutis. And those are very reverent and very solemn for us as Catholics. And they are not only inspirational for us, but they are really for us as Catholics, opportunities to help us to pray. And so it’s unfortunate that such a thing would happen, because that’s really a misuse of the relics and actually a disrespect to him and to his memory.”
18. Various of pilgrims passing in front and placing their hands on the tomb of Acutis to pray
19. Close of Acutis’ embalmed hands holding a rosary
20. Close of woman placing her hand on her heart while looking at Acutis’ tomb
21. Pilgrims passing by and placing hands on Acutis’ tomb
22. Student, Amelia Simone, posing for photo next to life-size cardboard cut-out of Acutis outside tomb
23. Close of poster reading (Italian) “Not me but God”
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Amelia Simone, 18-year-old from Chicago studying in Rome:
“I would never buy one (relic). I think the intercession aspect is very cool, but I don’t think I’d ever want to own a first-class relic. It just would feel a bit weird to me. I don’t know, I don’t think I’d like that.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vatican City – 1 April 2025
25. Rev. Enzo Fortunato entering the little chapel of the Pontifical Committee for the World Children’s Day
26. Various of Acutis relic with small pieces of his hair
28. Wide of Fortunato in chapel
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