Carlo Acutis

Carlo Acutis (3 May 1991 – 12 October 2006) was an Italian Roman Catholic teenager who was best known for documenting Eucharistic miracles.

Quotes

• The more Eucharist we receive, the more we will become like Jesus, so that on this earth we will have a foretaste of Heaven.
• To always be close to Jesus, that’s my life plan.
  • Short Biography

• You go straight to Heaven if you receive the Eucharist every day.
  • Si va diritti in Paradiso se ci si accosta tutti i giorni all'Eucaristia.
    • Un ragazzo dei nostri tempi conquistato da Cristo, osservatoreromano.va, 12 October 2020

• Everyone is born original, but many die as photocopies.
  • Tutti nascono come originali ma molti muoiono come fotocopie.
    • Carlo Acutis è venerabile. Diceva: Eucaristia la mia autostrada per il cielo, vaticannews.va, 5 July 2018.

Quotes about Carlo Acutis

• You know, to live close to someone like Carlo means to not remain neutral in your own faith. For me, Carlo brought me closer to God. He would ask questions that I would not know the answer to, especially in my own lack of catechism. So I turned to learning more about my faith, and this was because of Carlo. Many other people would witness to this, as well: people who converted because of his example, or his conversations. He really lived what he preached, a witness.
  • Antonia Acutis, Mother of Soon-to-Be Blessed Carlo Acutis: ‘Jesus Was His First Priority’ (February 27, 2020)

• Carlo strove to document the feat
  Of God’s disclosures visibly surprising
  Men capable of honest sympathizing.
  • ‘Profoundly Original’, a poem by Margaret Coats, the Society of Classical Poets (October 12, 2025)

• Acutis expressed a traditional form of Catholicism and was a staunch believer in transubstantiation. He recognized that many—even among Catholics—do not accept this doctrine and regard the Eucharist as merely symbolic. To counter this skepticism, he dedicated time to documenting miracles related to transubstantiation and sharing them through his blog. …I am unsure if the crowds of young people visiting his grave or who went to Rome for his (later postponed) canonization share his belief in transubstantiation. Nevertheless, they find Acutis more intriguing and engaging than his liberal Catholic or secular critics.
  • Massimo Introvigne, "Who Is Afraid of Catholic Saints? A Strange Campaign Against Carlo Acutis", Bitter Winter (July 7, 2025)

• This boy from Milan, who chose Assisi as his favorite place, understood, also following in the footsteps of St. Francis, that God must be at the center of everything
  • Domenico Sorrentino, Carlo Acutis Beatification Will Be a 17-Day Celebration in Assisi (September 24, 2020)

• He rode around on a broken bicycle, never talked about himself, and when I wanted to buy him an extra pair of shoes, he would reply, “What do I need them for?” [...] [About poor people] He knew them by name, he says, and brought them sleeping bags, blankets, clothes, and hot meals.
  • Interview of Andrea Ceredani to Antonia Salzano (Carlo Acutis' mother), La bici rotta, i poveri, il sacerdozio. Parla la mamma di Carlo Acutis, avvenire.it, 13 April 2025

• He represents a model of strength, alien to any form of compromise, aware that, in order to remain in Jesus' love, it is necessary to live the Gospel in a concrete way, even at the cost of going against the tide.
  • Agostino Vallini, from the Mass for the beatification of Carlo Acutis, October 10, 2020; quoted in Carlo Acutis: card. Vallini, "preghiera e missione i due tratti distintivi della sua fede eroica", agensir.it, 10 October 2020.

• The beatification of [arlo Acutis, son of Lombardy and lover of the land of Francis of Assisi, is good news, a powerful announcement that a young man of our time, one like many others, was won over by Christ and became a beacon of light for all those who want to know him and follow his example. His life is a model especially for young people, not to find gratification only in ephemeral successes, but in the perennial values that Jesus suggests in the Gospel, namely: putting God first, in the big and small circumstances of life, and serving our brothers and sisters, especially the least among us.
  • Agostino Vallini, from the Mass for the beatification of Carlo Acutis, October 10, 2020; quoted in Un ragazzo dei nostri tempi conquistato da Cristo, osservatoreromano.va, 12 October 2020.

External links

• Association of Friends of Carlo Acutis – Official Site