The first American pope recognized the miraculous saving of a premature baby at Rhode Island’s Memorial Hospital in 2007.

This recognition adds to other recent papal efforts to elevate contemporary figures to the altars, such as Carlos Acutis, the British youth who died in 2007, known as the "patron saint of the ...

The first American pope has also pushed forward the cause of the first Millennial saint — Carlos Acutis, a charitable British 15-year-old who died in 2007 of leukemia and whose body is on ...

The first American pope has also pushed forward the cause of the first Millennial saint — Carlos Acutis, a charitable British 15-year-old who died in 2007 of leukemia and whose body is on ...

“Young people will never experience this in their lives again. I’m sure of it. In practice, it will be like a World Youth Day,” Father Alfredo Tedesco explained.

A Chicago artist created a mosaic of Blessed Carlo Acutis using over 1,000 toy figurines — each one symbolizing the faith, tech savvy, and Eucharistic devotion of the soon-to-be saint.

Among the colored figurines is a tiny Pikachu, the yellow electrified mouse hero of Pokémon, which was Blessed Carlo's favorite video game.

Denver-based multimedia artist Johnny Vrba is pictured inside the St. Hedwig church building of Blessed Carlo Acutis Parish on Chicago’s northwest side July 23, 2025. Vrba was answering a boy’s ...

Mosaic of 1,000-plus toy figures depicts Blessed Carlo’s faith, devotion and computer savvy When a Chicago resident ran into a young man in Assisi, Italy, holding his piece of mosaic art — a rendering ...

Object Details author Brandão, Carlos Rodrigues Author Instituto Nacional do Folclore (Brazil) Universidade Federal de Goiás Editora Date 1985 Call number BT660.C38B73 1985X Type Books Prayers and ...