Carlo Acutis’ tomb opened for veneration; beatification to be held on Oct. 10

Teen computer programmer Carlo Acutis’ tomb has been opened for veneration on Thursday, Oct. 1, according to a report of the Catholic News Agency posted by CBCP News.

The public veneration will be held until October 17 at the Sanctuary of Spoliation in Assisi, Italy, while his beatification will be held on October 10.

Fourteen years after Acutis’ death, his body was “not incorrupt,” according to a spokesman for Acutis’ beatification.

“Today we … see him again in his mortal body. A body that has passed, in the years of burial in Assisi, through the normal process of decay, which is the legacy of the human condition after sin has removed it from God, the source of life. But this mortal body is destined for resurrection,” according to Bishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi.

His body was intact with his organs, but his face was reconstructed, the rector for the Sanctuary of Spoliation in Assisi told EWTN.

Acutis died in 2006 due to leukemia. He was only 15 years old then.

Meanwhile, his heart, now considered a relic, will be put on display at a reliquary inside the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi.

Acutis used his computer skills for the Church, researching Eucharistic miracles and creating a website to share the information he has gathered.

In February this year, the Vatican announced Pope Francis has approved a miracle attributed to Acutis’ intercession, according to a separate report of the Catholic News Agency carried by CBCP News.

The miracle involved a Brazilian child with a rare congenital anatomic anomaly of the pancreas who was reportedly healed in 2013.

This paved the way for Acutis’ beatification. —KG, GMA News