Relics of Carlo Acutis, a teenager
who is set to be canonised next month and is seen as the patron
saint of the Internet, are up for auction on the Web, Assisi
Bishop Domenico Sorrentino said Wednesday saying he had reported
the case to the police.
Msgr Sorrentino has filed the complaint against person or
persons unknown over the alleged Web sale of the blessed Carlo
Acutis's relics.
He did not say what the relics were.
Perugia prosecutors are looking into the case.
Acutis's body is preserved in the sanctuary of the Spogliazione
at Assisi.
Acutis, a student from Lombardy who died from leukaemia at the
age of 15 in 2006 and became a model of Christian life for many
young believers as well as a sort of 'patron saint of the
internet', will be canonised during the Roman Catholic Jubilee
in April after being beatified on 10 October 2020 in Assisi
Last May Pope Francis said Acutis had qualified to become a
saint after another miracle was ratified for him.
The second miracle that has earned him his saint's spurs was the
miraculous healing of a young Costa Rican girl.
Acutis has been fast-tracked to sainthood and will be named a
saint by Francis along with the Blessed Giuseppe Allamano,
founder of the Consolata Missions.
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