Emily Harnett at Harper’s Magazine:
Carlo was the only child of Antonia Salzano and Andrea Acutis, a financial executive. But not long after his death, according to Antonia, Carlo appeared to her in a dream to inform her that she could once again expect to be a mother. Four years to the day since Carlo’s death, Antonia gave birth to twins. She was forty-four years old. This story, repeated over the years in the press, is one of many miracles that have been attributed to Carlo since he died. In 2013, a four-year-old boy with a severe pancreatic abnormality underwent a total and inexplicable recovery after touching a relic of Carlo. A few years later, a Costa Rican woman visited Carlo’s tomb and prayed for her daughter, who had entered a coma after a traumatic bike accident. That same day, her daughter began to breathe on her own again. Scans of her brain showed that her hemorrhage had disappeared.
What qualifies a person for the canon is their demonstration of what the Church calls heroic virtue. Once a local bishop takes up the cause for canonization, a Vatican investigator called a postulator is enlisted to draft a petition—a document detailing evidence of a candidate’s heroic virtues.
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