Will your child be a saint?
If after being beatified you perform another miracle of healing and if the Church accepts the miracle after passing the relevant medical examinations, you are canonized and declared a saint, and now we are at it. He works miracles every day.
From the beyond?
Yes, Carlo died in 2006 at the age of 15 from fulminant leukemia and intercedes and attends to the prayers of those who ask through him.
Have you always been Catholic?
not practicing I was the daughter of a publisher, all around me were writers and artists. The first time I attended mass was at my communion, then at my confirmation and my wedding. After a year, Carlo was born, a precocious boy.
In what?
At 5 months he was already talking and from a very young age he wanted to enter all the churches to greet Jesus. I kept asking about the history of the saints, which is why I started studying theology. I think he was touched by God.
He studied theology to have answers.
When my father died of a heart attack, Carlo was four and a half years old and he told me that his grandfather had appeared to him and asked him to pray for him because he was in purgatory, and he did.
And did you pray?
He began at that age to pray the rosary daily for the souls in purgatory until his death. This affected me. At the age of 7 he received communion, and did not stop going to mass for a single day. “To always be united to Jesus is my life program”, he said.
But he was a boy!
Many saints begin this life of great union with God at a very young age. Carlo was very altruistic and generous. He defended his classmates who were discriminated against at school, he turned them into his best friends.
Was he popular?
Yes. We live in the center of Milan, where there are many homeless people. At the age of 8, he collected or bought food, clothes and snacks and took them there, informing them where to shower, sleep and eat.
He had initiative.
At his funeral, the church was full, many people had to stay outside, and among those who attended I saw many beggars, foreigners and people of other religions, caretakers of the neighborhood with whom I spoke. He had an incredible sensitivity and love for people.
Without a doubt an example for everyone.
He was a guy of his time with a huge sense of reality: he visited the elderly, saved money for the poor, volunteered in soup kitchens. And he tried to be humble and stand out, he said that conversion is not a process of addition, but of subtraction. Less me to leave room for God.
Where did he get the money?
His great grandmother left him money and we allowed him to use it, he was very smart. At the age of 9, I was reading computer engineering texts that we obtained from the Polytechnic of Milan.
He organized exhibitions.
Yes, with audiovisual material that he disseminated via the internet about 136 Eucharistic miracles recognized by the Church and that science can now verify.
The transubstantiation of the host in the flesh of Christ?
Yes, and the exhibition is traveling the world, it has been to all continents, in 10,000 parishes in the United States alone.
How was his death?
He had been saying for years that he was going to bleed to death from a ruptured vein in his brain and that’s what caused his leukemia. He died in five days.
Did he know he would die young?
He made a video two months before he died in which he says: “I am destined to die. I will always be young. The infinite is our homeland, not the finite.”
What miracles did he perform?
Many, but the one the Church chose for his beatification was that of a Brazilian boy who was born with a pancreas divided in two (pancreas divisum), he could not eat anything solid, he always vomited and was in pain.
Did Carlo heal him?
A priest devoted to Carlo in Brazil started a novena for the boy with his parishioners praying for his mediation and on the third day the 4-year-old boy started eating without problems. They did a CT scan and the pancreas was perfect. The Vatican consults ten doctors before proclaiming the miracle.
Does it continue to perform miracles?
Every day we receive reports of possible healing miracles. Carlo has many loyal people in the world. His incorrupt remains are laid out for veneration in Assisi, a young man in jeans and thighs.
Do you pray to Carlo?
Yes. I always tried to have more children; when I turned 42, three years after Carlo’s death, we decided to adopt. Then I dreamed of him: “Don’t worry, mom, he told me, you’ll have more children.” At 44 I became pregnant with twins.
