07/03/2026
The First Class Relic of the pericardium of Saint Carlo Acutis is visiting the Bournemouth Oratory 13-15th March.
Saint Carlo Acutis was canonized (with S Pier Giorgio Frassati) by Pope Leo on 7th September 2025. He died of leukemia (blood cancer), just 15 years old on 11 / 12th October 2006.
Born in London, (3rd May 1991) he lived in Milan (Italy) as an ordinary boy playing football, the saxophone, and computer games, designing computer programmes, including his own world-famous Exhibition of Eucharistic Miracles.
He loved to teach catechism to children preparing for First Communion and Confirmation, and to help the poor.
To always be close to Jesus, that’s my life plan, he wrote when he was only seven years old. A few of his famous phrases: By standing before the sun you get a tan, but by kneeling before the Eucharistic Christ, you become holy. He also said: Everyone is born originals but many die as photocopies. For Carlo the Eucharist was his highway to Heaven – and also the most powerful means to become saints quickly.
Admitted to First Holy Communion at only seven, he never missed his daily appointment with Holy Mass, Eucharistic adoration, and the daily Rosary.
Friday morning and afternoon are for our local Catholic and other schools, but Friday evening and Saturday have events for our Oratory Parishioners, and doubtless many pilgrims and visitors.
Give some preliminary time to work your way around S Carlo’s Exhibition of World-Wide Eucharistic Miracles – our semi-permanent display on the pillars and walls of the Oratory Church, and allow S Carlo to inform and ignite your faith in the Real Presence of Jesus scientifically, spiritually, and powerfully demonstrated around the world, and in every time in history, and visit
S Carlo’s website at: www.carloacutis.com
S Carlo is Patron Saint of Internet Users, intercessor for those with cancer, and a powerful protector of the young. Saint Carlo Acutis, pray for us.
