Learn the story of the saint’s twin siblings who arrived four years to the day he died: His mother considers the double blessing yet another miracle.
As the world is learning more about “God’s influencer,” Saint Carlo Acutis, his twin siblings — who took to the world’s stage on Sunday during the canonization Mass, with Michele offering the first reading and Francesca carrying the gifts to the altar with her brother and parents — have captured the hearts of millions.
It is rare to see young siblings witnessing such history: their own brother becoming a saint.
And the story of Francesca and Michele may be just one more miracle to add to the saint-in-sneakers’ story. While he was alive, Carlo was an only child, although his mother desperately wanted more children.
Saint Carlo Acutis’ parents, Andrea and Antonia, accompanied by his younger twin siblings, Michele and Francesca, brought the offertory gifts to Pope Leo XIV during the canonization Mass. pic.twitter.com/Z4AJHgtExf
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“When he was alive, his mom and dad couldn’t seem to have other kids. They tried. It didn’t happen. So he was an only child,” Sabrina Ferrisi recounted recently on EWTN Radio.
“But after he died in 2006, his mother was thinking, ‘Well, we can’t have kids. Maybe we’ll adopt.’ So she and her husband started the whole process to adopt, which in Italy takes four to five years.”
The Acutises were in the process of adopting when Carlo visited his mom in a dream. “He said to her, ‘You are going to become a mother again.’ And shortly after that dream, she discovered that she was expecting, and then she discovered that she was expecting twins,” Ferrisi recalled.
And indeed, Antonia and her husband Andrea welcomed twins — literally four years to the day of Carlo’s death, on Oct. 12, 2010.
A touching moment of the Mass for the canonization of Saints Pier Giorgio Frassati and Saint Carlo Acutis was when Pope Leo XIV, in his homily, spoke about the family of the “millennial” saint, who were present in St. Peter’s Square.
The Holy Father recalled that Carlo… pic.twitter.com/hEFGgwI2bA
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Antonia was well into her 40s when she became pregnant; and according to Ferrisi, who has spoken extensively to the mother of this new saint, she calls it a miracle given to her by the grace of God through her son’s intercession.
So this gamer, this avid guru of the internet who used technology to share the truth of Eucharistic miracles may have yet another avenue his prayers can help so many women struggling to have children and so many families yearning for the gift of life.
Saint Carlo Acutis, pray for us!