Devotion to Blessed Carlo Acutis spreads among Asian youth
January 09, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Paolo Affatato, the Fides news agency’s Asian news editor, reports on the spread of devotion to Blessed Carlo Acutis (1991-2006) among Catholic youth in Pakistan, the Philippines, China, India, and South Korea.
Sixteen strands of Blessed Acutis’s hair have been transferred in a reliquary from Italy to South Korea, for veneration by the local organizers of the 2027 World Youth Day.
Pope Francis will canonize Blessed Acutis on April 27, Divine Mercy Sunday.
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