Overview

• The Catholic Church is celebrating the first liturgical feast of St. Carlo Acutis on October 12 following his September 7 canonization by Pope Leo XIV.
• In Campo Grande, the Capela Nossa Senhora Aparecida is being formally elevated to the Archdiocesan Shrine of Nossa Senhora Aparecida and São Carlo Acutis, described as the first sanctuary dedicated to the saint.
• The shrine designation is linked to a recognized cure in the city attributed to Acutis’s intercession after contact with one of his relics.
• Public veneration is growing across Brazil, with Paróquia Cristo Rei in Fortaleza displaying a relic during Mass on October 11.
• Acutis is widely noted for using the internet to evangelize, including cataloging Eucharistic miracles, which has helped him resonate with younger Catholics.