After lots of prayers and emails, LA parish receives St. Carlo Acutis relic
Every year, thousands of Catholic pilgrims pass through Assisi, Italy to venerate the tombs of a few well-known saints, namely St. Francis and St. Clare, and more recently, St. Carlo Acutis, an Italian computer whiz with a reputation for holiness who died of leukemia in 2006 at the age of 15.
But during a Sept. 5 stop in the medieval town, 50 pilgrims from Los Angeles found out they weren’t there just to visit saints.
They were bringing one home with them.