What to know about Carlo Acutis, the Catholic Church’s new millennial saint
Carlo Acutis, set to become the Catholic Church 's first millennial saint, is already drawing crowds of pilgrims to Assisi, ...
Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi — a millennial teen
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...
Resurgence of Pilgrim Fervour in Assisi: The Canonisation of Carlo Acutis
As the historic town of Assisi prepares for the upcoming canonisation of Carlo Acutis on April 27, it is witnessing a remarkable increase in pilgrim fervour. The medieval town, famous as the home of ...
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Francis of Assisi: The Life of a Restless Saint – An empathetic and evenly paced treatment of the medieval saint
Few individuals in church history have straddled the fault line between insider and outsider quite so capably as Francis of Assisi – a ... of the medieval saint. Defined against the bourgeoisie ...
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Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi — a millennial teen whose ordinariness is the draw
That denial of privilege is a parallel with St. Francis, to whom Acutis was so devoted that he asked to be buried in Assisi, said Fr. Enzo Fortunato, who spent most of his religious career there ...