Catholic Church Calls For Investigation After ‘Relics’ Of Teenage Saint Listed For Sale
The Roman Catholic church and Italian police are investigating the sale of purported relics from Carlo Acutis after several listings have popped up online, prompting the church to decry the sale of articles from the soon-to-be canonized teenage saint.
Acutis is an Italian teenager who died in 2006 and who is widely expected to be declared the first “Millennial Saint.” Although Acutis passed 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. After having two miracles attributed to him, he is planned to be formally canonized earlier this year. Premier Christian News explains:
According to the Diocese of Assisi, an anonymous seller offered locks of Acutis’ hair for over 2,000 euros before they were removed. Bishop Domenico Sorrentino called for authorities to confiscate the items, warning that if fraudulent, such sales would be a “great offense to religious belief.”
Church officials, including Rev Enzo Fortunato, have condemned the practice, describing it as a “sin,” and stressed that relics should serve spiritual devotion, not commercial gain.
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 the church is decrying the sale of these relics, they have acquired some of their own. The church has hair and bits of his heart, which have been put into reliquaries and are sent to different churches worldwide for display and the edification of the Roman Catholic faithful.
Editor’s Note. There are more than a few interesting things being sold online of Carlo Acutis.
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The Catholic church coating Ash Ketchem’s fetid corpse in wax and putting him in a Stargate SG-1 Goa’uld sarcophagus device for his corpse to incubate in was not on my bingo card for 2025.
That pod is really odd. As Jeff said, it looks like something from Stargate. Is Rome going to do some alien disclosure soon? LOL!