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00:00This episode of The Saints is about a young man named Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006 at the age of 15,
00:28and who was just declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
00:32When we planned and shot the episode, Carlo's official canonization had yet to happen.
00:39The ceremony was supposed to take place in the spring of 2025, but it was postponed due to the death of Pope Francis and the election of Pope Leo.
00:49But long before Carlo was canonized, he was a renowned and beloved figure.
00:55However, hundreds of thousands of people have made the pilgrimage to the site of his remains in Assisi.
01:03In many ways, the life of the so-called influencer saint wasn't so unusual.
01:11There was just one key difference.
01:15He believed.
01:16And he lived his belief.
01:19Right to the end.
01:23Now, the story of St. Carlo Acutis.
01:25It's just too late for a boy your age.
01:45I wish I could go.
01:47When you're older.
01:48Give me a kiss.
01:49But I'm not tired.
01:53Merry Christmas, my son.
01:54Merry Christmas, St.
01:57Sleep well.
01:59Merry Christmas to you, Beata.
02:01Merry Christmas to you, Sarah.
02:02Carlo Acutis was born in 1991 to a family in Milan.
02:07When he was young, he had a nanny from Poland named Beata Sperczynska, who played an important
02:16role in his life.
02:18Hey.
02:20You don't need to go to midnight mass in a big famous cathedral to celebrate Christmas.
02:26But they get to.
02:29If you weren't taking care of me, you would go too, right?
02:32Yes, but I'm celebrating Christmas now with you.
02:38And I'm feeling it within my heart.
02:50What do you imagine it is to celebrate Christmas?
02:56To celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ?
02:59Yes.
03:00Why are you laughing at me?
03:02I'm not laughing at you, my little king.
03:06Maybe you're right.
03:08Maybe it is a great birthday celebration.
03:13Is there a party somewhere?
03:15Maybe they go to midnight mass because there is a party.
03:19No.
03:20It's more than just a party.
03:22It's worship.
03:23You know?
03:24Which means we devote ourselves to giving thanks for the birth of Jesus Christ.
03:31The birth of forgiveness, redemption, and the greatest love.
03:38What is redemption?
03:40Being forgiven by God.
03:44Washed clean within your heart.
03:47To know that you will be redeemed from all sins when you accept Jesus into your heart.
03:54To know that anything can be forgiven by God.
03:58That's the gift that's the gift that God gave us.
03:59That's the gift that God gave us with Jesus.
04:01That's the gift that God gave us with Jesus.
04:02Or into the greatest and the purest of his creatures.
04:06The one without sin.
04:08Mary?
04:09Yes, of course.
04:11Our beloved.
04:13Tonight was the birth of her son.
04:15And it was the birth of God's love into this earth.
04:21Wherever we are.
04:22Whatever we are doing.
04:24We can still pray to the blessed virgin and to God.
04:28For giving us this gift.
04:31Ceremonies are beautiful.
04:33But we don't need them.
04:37What is sin?
04:39Sorry, I'm sorry.
04:45Sorry, what did I say?
04:48Malutki.
04:51What can I say to you?
04:58Sin is...
05:00You're scared of sin?
05:02No.
05:03There's just so much of it in this world.
05:09And within all of us, I suppose.
05:13That's why I pray to God.
05:15Every day.
05:17Throughout the day.
05:19Sometimes I see you with beads on your fingers.
05:22And you're singing.
05:24Yes.
05:26I'm chanting.
05:27Is I praying?
05:29Yes, Malutki.
05:30It is.
05:32Will you do it now?
05:33With me?
05:37Yes, I will.
05:39Give me your hand.
05:43Give me your hand.
05:43Hymn.
05:44G'day.
05:48Ulajże Jezuniu.
05:54Moja perełko.
06:00Lulaj ulubione.
06:07My pieścitełko.
06:11I'm a little
06:41He was born into a world that was becoming more and more secularized
07:01and Carlo's parents weren't particularly devout
07:06so what was it that sparked his faith?
07:11The Body of Christ
07:13Amen
07:18The Body of Christ
07:23He asked his parents if he could receive his first communion at the age of seven
07:31I want to be one with Jesus for all time, my whole life
07:37I'm not going to say yes because it's too much, that's why
07:41After Beata left, Carlo had a new au pair
07:45A Hindu man of the Brahmin caste named Rajesh Mohar
07:55Like many of the other adults around him, Rajesh was immediately moved by Carlo's faith
08:05No, no, listen to me, it's not a question
08:09As a person shifted, hundreds of people are left alone
08:11A single bulldozer arrives this morning
08:13They literally pull at the rubble with their bare hands
08:17Six people known to be trapped in this building
08:19There are ten others like it
08:21Heaven and earth are full of your glory
08:29Hosanna in the highest
08:32Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord
08:36Hosanna in the highest
08:39Through Jesus Christ
08:41Your son, our Lord
08:45In many ways
08:46He lived the same kind of life as other kids
08:53Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! go!
08:57Go! Go! Go!
08:59Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!
09:01Come on.
09:14Come on.
09:15Come on, come on.
09:17Oh, no.
09:18Oh, no.
09:19Oh, no.
09:20You're sorry.
09:21Ball!
09:22Oh, no.
09:23Oh, no.
09:24Oh, no.
09:25We're not going.
09:26We're not going.
09:27No.
09:28No.
09:29No.
09:30Yeah, dude, this is...
09:32Whoa!
09:33Yeah, I know.
09:34Hello!
09:35Stop with this noise!
09:36Wow!
09:37I want to sleep!
09:38Yeah, sorry.
09:39Don't worry!
09:40Yeah, sorry, we are...
09:42Bye!
09:43Sorry, grandpa!
09:44Sorry, grandpa!
09:45Ah, socks!
09:46Sorry!
09:51And like many teenagers, he became obsessively focused on one thing.
10:00Ta-da!
10:01Yeah, you like it?
10:02Yeah.
10:03You can click here.
10:04Unlike many teenagers, Carlo never discarded his faith out of embarrassment.
10:21He went deeper.
10:23No!
10:24No, no, no, no!
10:29No, no, no!
10:31No!
10:32No!
10:33What?!
10:41I'll fix it, don't worry!
10:42Bye!
10:43Bye boy!
10:44Bye tongatman!
10:46Bye!
10:47Bye, boy!
10:49Bye!
10:50Bye!
10:51Bye Robert!
10:53Ciao.
10:59Carlo and his family spent their summers in Assisi.
11:07The home of St. Francis and St. Chiara.
11:12It was the place he loved most in the world.
11:18I have something for you.
11:22I'm joking.
11:24It's for me.
11:28Good boy.
11:33Good boy.
11:49At which point do we see the real beginnings of
12:19the unification. So what was the real event that started this movement?
12:26Excuse me, Mr. Okutis, did you have something you wanted to contribute?
12:33About what? The origins of the unification.
12:39Garibaldi. Garibaldi. Garibaldi?
12:44Very wild guess. Thank you.
12:48Okay, quiet down. From the beginning.
12:51Books out. Page 13, please.
12:54Good morning, princess. Page 13, please.
12:57It was a crazy night. She's the guilty party. The one who led me into a night of...
13:12What did the chaplain call it last week?
13:18What was that word?
13:19Ribaldry.
13:20Yeah, it was a night of ribaldry.
13:24It wasn't the chaplain. It was the friar from Brothers of the Sacred Heart who picked up the
13:29food we collected for the feast day of Saint Bonaventura.
13:32Why was the priest talking about ribaldry?
13:34Who knows?
13:36Friar. It was the friar.
13:41You look terrible.
13:44Yeah, I feel like shit.
13:46So, did you fill her up?
13:49Man, I fucked her, right?
13:52And she was so into it and it was so worth it.
13:56Was it?
14:00Sure.
14:04Why?
14:05How?
14:08Man, what do you want from me?
14:10It was fun, right?
14:14Good.
14:16Yeah.
14:16What?
14:18Everybody had a blast, did they?
14:21Okay.
14:22What are you, my mother?
14:24No, I'm your friend, of course.
14:25But you're disciplining me.
14:26No, I'm not.
14:27Yeah, looking down on me.
14:28No, I'm not, okay?
14:29Yeah, you are.
14:30Do you want to give me a time out?
14:33You're judging us.
14:35I'm not, okay?
14:36Look, you might not like to go to parties and stuff like that,
14:39but you can't get down on other people who do.
14:42Yeah, I'm not getting down on them.
14:46I want to apologize.
14:50Don't do that to yourself.
14:51That's all.
14:52Well, okay.
14:54Should they say thank you?
14:57I don't want you to say anything.
14:59Take care of yourself.
15:09The body of Christ.
15:23Transubstantiation.
15:25The bells.
15:26The body of Christ.
15:28The moment when time stops.
15:31The body of Christ.
15:32When the bread and the wine.
15:36Become the body and blood of Christ.
15:42Carlos started creating a website
15:44that compiled the stories of every Eucharistic miracle.
15:49It became his life's work.
16:02One story after another.
16:15The miracles made possible by the Eucharist.
16:32The famille's death step.
16:34Why are you here?
16:35Listen to your secrets.
16:36Theрушite.
16:37The threether best stuff.
16:40I can read on this list.
16:41First of all,
16:42before a premier.
16:43To be a premier.
16:43After two and overnight.
16:45The same thing we've ever said.
16:47The family's friend.
16:48I will fly as well.
16:48When the mother's pretty much.
16:49The family's friend I dasselina and tôi will he.
16:51And slowly to hear it.
16:53After IIII was an invitation I thought about how heremotions.
16:55What happened was he?
16:56Until now?
16:57It's the company we had told him.
16:58Aphemolus after he deserved it.
16:581841 002 says 1 eclipse.
17:00Bringing time out
17:02PHONE RINGS
17:24Carlo, I've been meaning to speak to you.
17:28The brothers and I have noticed that you are exhausted.
17:32Which obviously concerns me.
17:36I must ask how much sleep you are getting.
17:40Not much, Father.
17:43But enough.
17:45But enough for what?
17:47To work on my website.
17:49No one I've taught you about.
17:52Yes.
17:54And I found your website remarkable.
17:56Yes, the animation isn't finished yet.
17:58I was just sent a packet of information on several more miracles,
18:01but the Earth Alliance asked me to help them for the website they are trying to launch.
18:09And it slowed down my work.
18:13They need my help.
18:16Carlo, what about your school work?
18:18After this work is finished, I...
18:23I don't know.
18:27Will it be finished?
18:29I mean, the Earth Alliance, yes.
18:32But, you see, these things are what I must do.
18:35But so is your school work.
18:37I've been told that you've missed an oral presentation in Latin.
18:43Did I?
18:45And then you come here at the crack of dawn every morning of the school week.
18:49Yes, Father. You're right.
18:52It's so early, Carlo. And you are so tired.
18:54Yeah, of course. I come to Mass, Father.
19:00I have a calling.
19:02Yes.
19:03You have told me.
19:04But to be a priest, you have to study.
19:07No.
19:09I have a calling.
19:11I have a calling now.
19:13I have no choice. I need to follow it.
19:14I have to go or I'll be late for class.
19:20It's okay.
19:45Thank you, man.
19:52Please.
19:54Here is that...
19:56It's cool.
19:59It's okay.
20:01Yes.
20:05Yes.
20:09Thank you, joey.
20:11Yes.
20:12ORCHESTRA PLAYS
20:42Is that Santa Chiara?
20:48Yeah.
20:50Her bones are in the crypt.
20:53But she's here.
20:54With us.
21:09Lord.
21:09And we are called the memory of Santa Chiara the Virgin.
21:14Through her merits and following her example, may we be strengthened in our hope and charity
21:20as we await the glorious resurrection and the eternal communion with you.
21:26Amen.
21:26Amen.
21:34Good boy.
21:36Good boy.
21:36Good boy.
21:37Come.
21:38Come.
21:39Come.
21:40Who are these statues?
21:42He's Leonir.
21:43And who's the one standing?
21:47Dinepro.
21:49He's looking at the stars.
21:52And who's this guy?
21:55St. Francis.
21:56You're welcome.
21:57Thanks.
21:57Thanks.
22:09Nice.
22:10I love to listen to the wind
22:32Carlo
22:33What?
22:40It's like sailing across the universe.
22:52I feel like an old man.
22:56I feel like a newborn baby.
23:04I feel like a newborn baby.
23:16I feel like a newborn baby.
23:20I feel like a newborn baby.
23:26Carlo, can I speak to you for a minute?
23:43Of course you can speak to me.
23:53I think I'm finding myself so sad.
23:59And I don't know why.
24:02Actually I do know why.
24:04I just don't understand.
24:08I went to a party with Sofia and Ana Maria, the new girl.
24:15And I know you never go to these parties.
24:16No, I don't.
24:19You disapprove?
24:20No, I just don't go.
24:24Well, I went and I was talking to this boy.
24:32And I liked him.
24:36And I went to an upstairs bathroom with him.
24:41And we...
24:44He...
24:47Okay.
24:49You've told me with what you can't say or won't say, that's okay?
24:55Yes.
24:59Was he kind to you after?
25:03Sort of, yes.
25:07But then he just left.
25:12Not so kind.
25:14I suppose not.
25:20Are you worried about being pregnant?
25:24No, no, that's not it.
25:29I'm not worried, I'm not angry, I'm not depressed, I'm...
25:38I'm not anything that I can name.
25:41What am I asking for?
25:45I don't know.
25:48I can see this harms your soul.
25:51It haunts you.
25:55I've committed a sin, haven't I?
25:59We are all sinners.
26:06I guess that lots of people find me different.
26:11Because I have faith.
26:15But...
26:20I'm not going to absolve you.
26:25I should go to confession.
26:26Yeah, but don't stop there.
26:31Let that be the beginning.
26:33The beginning of what?
26:35Of coming to understand that only you can care for your soul.
26:40It's precious.
26:43You should visit Assisiya.
26:49It's my favorite place.
26:51You should go there.
26:52Hello.
26:53You've really never had a girlfriend yourself, have you?
26:57Chiara.
26:58There is only one woman in my life.
27:01We can talk anytime you want.
27:12Okay?
27:14Bye.
27:15Bye.
27:16Bye.
27:17Bye.
27:18Bye.
27:19Bye.
27:20Bye.
27:21Bye.
27:22Bye.
27:23Bye.
27:24Bye.
27:25Bye.
27:26Bye.
27:27Bye.
27:28Bye.
27:29Bye.
27:30Bye.
27:31Bye.
27:32Bye.
27:33Bye.
27:34Bye.
27:35Bye.
27:36Bye.
27:37Bye.
27:38Bye.
27:39Bye.
27:40Bye.
27:41Bye.
27:42Bye.
27:43Bye.
27:44Bye.
27:45Oh, my God.
28:15Time.
28:29When life is being lived, time is elastic.
28:36It stretches and contracts.
28:39It flows and jumps.
28:45Get rid of it.
28:54Let her run.
28:57Let her run.
29:02No, no, no, no, no.
29:32In the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
29:54Padre nostro, che sei nei cieli, sia santificato il tuo nome, venga il tuo regno, sia fatta la tua volontà come in cielo così in terra.
30:12Agi oggi il nostro pane quotidiano e rimetti a noi i nostri debiti come noi li rimettiamo ai nostri debitori.
30:20E non cinture in tentazione, ma liberaci dal male.
30:30Amen.
30:35Carlo! Carlo! Carlo, buzza!
30:38What's happening? Andrea!
30:40Carlo!
30:41Ehi, Carlo!
30:42Please, help me!
30:43Carlo!
30:44Come on, Carlo!
30:46Come on, come on.
30:48Hey, we are here.
30:49Come on, come on.
30:50Talk to me.
30:51Be careful, please.
30:52Go to the ambulance.
30:53Carlo, talk to me.
30:54Oi.
30:55Talk to me.
30:56Carlo.
30:57What's going on already?
30:58Yes.
30:59Yes.
31:00Tell them that I offer my spring to the world.
31:06Where are you staying, honey?
31:07Yes.
31:08I need an ambulance.
31:09We have a young boy here.
31:10No, no, no, Mike.
31:11He's still awake.
31:12He's bruised.
31:13He's very hurt.
31:14Do you hear him?
31:15Yes.
31:16Be careful, please.
31:17Be careful, please.
31:18Be careful, please.
31:19Be careful, please.
31:20Be careful.
31:21Yes, yes, I'm here.
31:23Come on, come on, come on.
31:25Come on, yes.
31:26Yes, please.
31:27Talk to me.
31:28Carlo.
31:29Carlo, stay with me.
31:30Stay with me.
31:31Carlo.
31:32Please.
31:33Please.
31:34Come on.
31:35I'm feeling good.
31:36He looks better, doesn't he?
31:37More treatable now, but not in 2006.
31:46I'm feeling good.
32:02He looks better, doesn't he?
32:08The pain is excruciating.
32:12And he never says a word.
32:17He always asks about the rest of us.
32:24He's a very special kind of boy, this one of yours.
32:33You're really kind.
32:37May God bless you with the help of the Holy Spirit.
32:49Pax Domini sit cum Tibi et cum Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
32:58The body of Christ.
33:11Amen.
33:12Amen.
33:13Amen.
33:15Amen.
33:18Amen.
33:21Amen.
33:23Amen.
33:25Amen.
33:34Amen.
33:36Amen.
33:37Amen.
33:38Amen.
33:47Amen.
33:49Amen.
33:50Amen.
33:51Amen.
33:52Amen.
33:53Amen.
33:54Amen.
33:56Amen.
33:57Amen.
34:16Amen.
34:17It owns.
34:47It owns.
35:17It owns.
35:47In his very short life, Carlo Acutis touched people.
36:05He helped them to better their lives.
36:11He comforted some, maybe inspired others.
36:18And he did so through the ether of the internet.
36:22He picked up a tool, mastered it, and used it for good.
36:36There was a youth movement in his image.
36:38There was a push for beatification.
36:42And there were claims and miracles.
36:43Years after his burial, Carlo was exhumed.
36:50His face was recreated as a silicone mask.
36:57And his body was put on display behind glass in the place he loved most, Assisi.
37:08The process has formed.
37:10In 2012, Carlo was declared a servant of God.
37:15In 2018, Pope Francis declared him venerable.
37:20Meaning, he had lived a life of heroic virtue, knowing that his days on earth would come to an early end.
37:28In 2020, he was beatified.
37:36And on September 7th, 2025, he was canonized.
37:41He is now St. Carlo Acutis.
37:57The influencer saint, they call me.
38:01My friends and I would have laughed at that.
38:07What a wondrous thing to have lived a life.
38:12What a blessing to have breathed the air.
38:16To have walked the hills and the streets.
38:20To have shared my days with other souls.
38:25Each one precious.
38:37I'm always with you.
38:40And I'm always watching over you.
38:44It's almost unheard of for someone to be canonized as quickly as Carlo Acutis, who died at such a young age with his whole life ahead of him.
39:00But he represents something very special.
39:03A young man who is recognizably a part of our world, who we can believe in.
39:09In the years before social media hit the world like a tidal wave, he used the tools of the internet to actually help people.
39:18Many of whom he'd never met.
39:21To put it simply, St. Carlo was a force for good in this world.
39:27And his presence is bringing a whole new generation back in touch with their faith.
39:33It's very important for young people in the modern world to understand that a person of today can be a saint.
39:50This boy was 15 when he died, tragically.
39:53You talk to younger people, they think of saints.
39:55They think of Galilee.
39:56They think of, you know, St. Patrick.
39:58They think of people way distant past.
40:01But here, what was really interesting is to make someone from a very young generation and say, look, this can be a model.
40:09This can be something that we could aspire to.
40:13Well, I think Carlo Acutis is an amazing saint.
40:15And we have to remember that young saints are not a novelty, right?
40:19We have Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, who died at age 23.
40:21Joan of Arc was very young.
40:23And there's clearly a real devotion to Carlo Acutis.
40:26And it does show, as you were saying, Marty, that you can be holy at a young age.
40:30And one of the things I love...
40:31With the internet and with the craziness in the world and the way it's going, this is what's so important about the lesson of Carlo.
40:38Yeah.
40:39And Karl Rahner, the Jesuit theologian, said that the saints show us what it means to be Christian in this particular way.
40:44Right?
40:45And Carlo shows us what it means to be a millennial saint, so-called.
40:49But one of the things that amazes me and really delights me is the amount of attention and attraction and appeal that he has, right, among young people.
40:57So something's going on.
40:58And they see in him someone whom they can emulate, right?
41:01Yeah.
41:02Someone who was online.
41:03Someone who did gaming.
41:04Yeah.
41:05Someone who had websites.
41:06And you don't have to be an old man in a monastery to be holy or to be a saint.
41:10Fast canonizations make me nervous.
41:12You rush to judgment.
41:13At the same time, like, when is the right moment?
41:16Joan of Arc had to wait until the 20th century.
41:18Yes, exactly.
41:19What's known about him is probably what's going to be known about him.
41:23So the usual hesitation that we've got to wait and see how all this plays out doesn't apply in the same way.
41:29I think, in general, it's better to wait, right, to let the person's life kind of settle down and us to get perspective.
41:35But there's a great devotion to Carlo who is obviously extremely holy.
41:39When I think about the timing, I think about that.
41:41If God wants these things to happen fast, they happen fast.
41:44God is presented to him from very early on.
41:47Beata presents Christmas in a whole new way to him.
41:51That's interesting.
41:52He's not out with the family.
41:53They're not out at the party.
41:54Yeah.
41:55But we can have Christmas right here.
41:57Then his family decides to summer in Assisi.
42:00What better way to present holiness to a person who's still being formed to be in that town?
42:05It's magnetic.
42:06And, in a way, that's the rationale for canonizing him so soon.
42:10Because it's through his story that now God is being presented to others.
42:14And holiness is being presented to a lot of young people.
42:16We're seeing it now.
42:17And I think he's drawing other people to people like Francis of Assisi.
42:21The millions of young people in the past couple of years that have gone to see his tomb are going to see Francis and Claire as well.
42:27That's right.
42:28So he's introducing people, as he did in life, to the saints.
42:31He lies down by that statue of Saint Francis like he's basking in the love of this great saint.
42:41I was very moved by, say, the love with which he spoke to the girl.
42:46She's instantly ashamed.
42:48He's speaking with care.
42:50And then at the end, when the same girl, after his death, goes and sort of curls up.
42:56Oh, yes.
42:57I thought those two images of his faith as showing this freedom, but also coming there because he taught her to.
43:06He taught her that.
43:08That's right.
43:09Carlo's attachment to the Eucharist, the whole idea of receiving the Eucharist, it gives you a spiritual strength.
43:15And that emanates with you for quite a while.
43:18There's a question, you know, why was he so obsessed with Eucharistic miracles?
43:22I'm like, because he felt transformed by the Eucharist.
43:27I loved what he said.
43:29When we take the Eucharist, we become a home.
43:33So the rallying point is always the Eucharist.
43:35It's always that getting to the Eucharist, receiving the Eucharist.
43:38That's why it's always interesting to me.
43:40So many very religious people existed towards the end of their lives only on the Eucharist.
43:45That's right.
43:46So a Eucharistic miracle would be a miracle that's associated with the Eucharist, which is the host that we believe as Catholics becomes Jesus's body and also the wine becomes Jesus's blood.
43:55There are miracles that happen with the host, but there are also miracles that happen around adoration and people's veneration of the Eucharist.
44:02And he had a website, which is kind of his own 21st century devotion in a sense, his way of kind of spreading the good news about this.
44:10And I think it's hard for us to see someone who's 15 year old and suffering, but there's also someone who has, you know, gone through a very adult, you know, as it were experience.
44:20Right. So he's not just this kind of sort of fun loving teenager.
44:24He's also someone who suffered. And I think that's an important part of his whole life.
44:28I think we need to see him in the totality of his life, not just this kind of cool guy, but someone who's really, you know, had a tragic end.
44:35One of the images I love is that God raises up saints.
44:39You know, when we needed a saint like Francis of Assisi, God raised up Francis of Assisi.
44:43When we needed a saint like Carlo Cutis, God raises this person up, you know, for all.
44:47So I find it very powerful that God has given us this example and really given youth this example in particular.
44:54Amen.
45:05Amen.
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