Catholic Church Hosts Gruesome Relic of 'Teenage Saint' Who Died in 2006

Thousands of Roman Catholics made the pilgrimage to St. Anthony’s Church in Wythenshawe, UK, this past weekend to venerate the body parts of Carlo Acutis. Acutis is an Italian teenager who died in 2006 and who is widely expected to be declared the first “Millennial Saint.”

Although Acutis died nearly a decade ago due to leukemia, his legacy continues to grow. He is remembered as ‘God’s influencer’ for his impactful social media presence. His beatification in 2020, following the healing of a child in Brazil that was attributed to him, was a significant milestone in his road to sainthood. A recent declaration by Pope Francis of a second miracle attributed to him has met the two-miracle minimum for sainthood, ensuring his canonization at the 2025 Catholic Jubilee.

At present, his body, which was exhumed after 14 years in the ground and reconstructed with wax to conceal his decay, lays in a church in the diocese of Assis, where, dressed in jeans and sneakers, he is subject to pilgrimages and visitations from weepy, “venerating” Roman Catholics who pray to him and ask him for his intercessions in heaven.

While his body may be entombed, however, not all his body parts are. Acutis has several “first class relics” floating out there in the Roman Catholic world, including hair and bits of his heart, which are put in reliquaries and are what was on display this past weekend.

This same relic recently appeared at the National Eucharistic Congress this past summer.

Interestingly enough, in contrast to Romanist veneration (worship) of body parts, when Moses (who is recorded to have performed 42 miracles) God sent Michael the angel – according to Jude 9 – to keep Satan from accessing his body to delve it out for devilish purposes.