Extent: Paperback
Pages: 24
Size: 148 mm x 105 mm
Publisher: Veritas Publications
Blessed Carlo Acutis (1991–2006), the first beatified millennial, is known and revered worldwide. This little pocket booklet – a mix of a biographical and spiritual chronicle - sketches the short life of the remarkably devout and precocious teenager who was beatified in 2020. However, and possibly because of its attenuated nature, the booklet reads more like a fulsome eulogy rather than an actual biography.
A quintessential fashionably dressed youngster who enjoyed sports, video games and web design, Carlo has left a lasting legacy by researching and publishing a list of Eucharistic miracles on the internet. His devotion to the Eucharist and his incomparable understanding of the Mystical Body of Christ at eight years of age is credited with convincing a Brahmin Hindu to be baptised into the Catholic Church. A parish catechist at eleven, a befriender of the destitute and an internet age ‘influencer’, the fifteen year old Carlo approached death with equanimity declaring, ‘I’m happy to die because I have lived my life without wasting a minute doing things that wouldn’t have pleased God’.
All in all, an interesting introduction to a modern inspirational teenager.
-- Reviewer: Mary Adamson, Intercom, May 2024
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Blessed Carlo Acutis: Child of the Eucharist by Gemma Grant is a beautiful introduction to the life of Carlo Acutis (1991-2006), a modern-day missionary who used technology to spread the word of God. In many ways Carlo was an ordinary young person who loved sport, video games, TV and making short films, but he was also deeply devoted to Jesus, loved to attend Mass daily and was passionate about researching and sharing the Eucharistic miracles. His incredible faith and devotion have been an inspiration for Christians all around the world. He was beatified in 2020, fourteen years after his death.
About the Author:
Gemma Grant grew up in Belfast and holds a degree in history from Trinity College Dublin. This text is taken from her collection The Courage of Their Convictions: Stories of Inspirational Men and Women of Faith, which was published in 2021 by Veritas.