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