Not everyone has the patience of a saint, but the son of Antonia Salzano, Carlo, did.
With the Canonization of Carlo Acutis of Pope Francis just one week away, he has already been announced worldwide as the first Millennial Holy.
But his mother, certainly, never shared the same concern for his spiritual life.
Recently he told Fox News Digital that he was “far” from the Church after being raised in a non -religious home. He attended the Catholic School for convenience, and only entered a church on three different occasions, all of which had to complete the sacraments that were aligned with their school curriculum.
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For Antonia, it was a protocol, a registration, uniform or types, since his Catholic sacrament was liked by tasks.
That is, until Carlo was five years old and a beloved priest of Bologna, Italy, who had “the discernment of the spirit,” he told Antonia that his young man would grow to be something special.
Beef by the priest’s prediction, he marked the moment when his life would change forever.
“Carlo, for me, was a savior,” Antonia told The Outlet. “It was a mystical.”
Little A Saint Carlo Acutis, who is scheduled to be canonized as a saint by Pope Francis on April 27, along with friends as shown in the new documentary, “Carlos Acutis: Roadmap to reality”. (Castletown Media)
The saint and his mother would study theology and attend the daily mass together, often to the breath of the letter. When he died later at the age of 15, he visited Antonia in a dream, announcing that he would be canonized after the news of the first miracle attributed to his intercession.
That day would be April 27, 2025.
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Four years after Carlo’s death in leukemia in 2006, Antonia would become a receiver of his son’s intercession in his own right.
“When Carlo died, I was 39 years old and then I began to try to have other children. I said:” I’m still young, maybe I can try, right? ” [But] The children did not arrive. Then I started my practice to adopt a child, but in Italy, it is very difficult … I had lost all my hopes of having children for myself, “he explained.” Once he gets upset in Carlo, he said: “Listen, bee, again, a mother. Don’t worry. ‘And, a month later, I became pregnant.”
After years of fighting to accept that he would never be a mother, his twins, Francesca and Michele, they would share an expiration date on the anniversary of Carlo’s death.
“Hey [Carlo] He understood that there was a lack of faith … so he used the Internet for goodness. “
Born in 1991 and the product of his education of 1990-20000, Antonia told The Outlet that Carlo’s mission was to evangelize the use of the Internet.
Before technology aroused its intrigue, Carlo was a charitable child, spending his first years helping those in need in his neighborhood in Milan, where to provide garments and food for the population of homeless people in the city.
“Mother Teresa used to say that we do not need to help worldwide because it is enough to leave our place where we will find our calcuta,” he said. “And Carlo found his calcuta in Milano.”
When Carlo dawned that feeding a soul is as vital as feeding a stomach, the adolescent technology expert perfected his construction skills of the website to document Eucharistic Miracles and Marian apparitions.
It was, as Antonia described, “the Internet light side.”
“Sometimes we don’t have prepared on this impact of social networks, Internet,” said Antonia. “I immediately understood that the Internet had the light side of the Internet. And you could also have the dark side. Unfortunately, especially young people, hours spend these things and their freedom. So, that is being danger.”
These dangers are explored in the new documentary film, “Carlo Acutis: Roadmap to reality”, in which Antonia offers comments. The film, a joint effort between Castawn Media and Wahl Street Productions by Jim Wahlberg, which opens together with the Canonization of Carlo, exposes the social dilemma of social networks by challenging a group of adolescents to separate from their devices.
“[The world] He wants to digitize your soul … But, with Jesus, we don’t have to fear. “
When talking about the film, Antonia described that his son was a “sign of hope” in the midst of the virtual landscape of our society, since the public discourse surrounding Carlo’s impact has led nicknames as “the influence of God” and “the holy pattern of the Internet.”
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“Hey [Carlo] He understood that there was a lack of faith. I used to say that there are thousands of people in front of a concert, in front of a football match. I do not see them in front of the Tabernacle, where is the house of Jesus that is really present among us, “he explained.” Then he used the Internet for goodness. He lived all the dangers that young people and all people live now. But he could dominate, be free, always to set up his freedom, not become a slave [to it]. “
Through his technological efforts and his spiritual discipline, Carlo Acutis would end up leaving his global brand, since Catholic leaders around the world now look at today’s younger generations.
His mother agrees, echoing the position of the high priests that Carlo is an antidote for our society addicted to social networks.
“Surely Carlo is a work of God. Then, the fact that God gives through Carlo all these thanks is … probably, that is, helping us, our society, our young people; parents too, because the problem is also the parents,” he told Fox News.
“Carlo is an instrument, because he lived the things we are living. He was dressed like most young people, teenagers. Most of the saints of the past seem unattainable, because they are very destiny. Attempts. [Carlo] He came to teach us that, in daily life, we can become saints in our routine. Thinking about God, offering our work to God with a prayer, our life becomes a continuous prayer. So mysticism … we are all mystical because we have the Blessed Trinity within us. The only problem is that we do not have the connection with the presence of God in us. “
Antonia said it is a matter of having that desire to connect.
“Or of course, at first it will not be easy,” he began. “But with practice, with constant will, if we really want [this] In our heart, God will reward us. We have to have that desire in people’s soul. “
“Carlo used to say that everyone is born born, but many die as photocopies … the important thing is to remind these children that all are unique.”
Antonia, now a devoted Catholic who says that the sacraments made are “the supernatural god that God uses to give us grace,” he concluded when imploring the readers who realize that we are all original works of art and has “special project”, this is this, this is this, this is this this is this is this is this dat haas for a “haas for a” haas. ” Dat s “is this dat s” this God has been for a “dat s” is our s “, it is this. it.
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“Carlo Acutis: Roadmap to reality” will have its global debut on April 21 in Washington, DC, before broadcasting in the Vatican on April 24, followed by a theatrical release on April 27, the same day that Carlo can canonize in St. Peter’s St. Peter’s of Rome.