{"id":80461,"date":"2025-09-04T15:41:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=80461"},"modified":"2025-09-05T18:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:55:50","slug":"special-carlo-acutis-part-1-interview-with-his-mother-antonia-salzano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2025\/09\/04\/special-carlo-acutis-part-1-interview-with-his-mother-antonia-salzano\/","title":{"rendered":"CARLO ACUTIS (1): Interview with his mother, Antonia Salzano"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Antonia Salzano watched her son Carlo die at the age of 15 from a sudden and aggressive leukemia. Today, he would have been 34 years old. She is one of the few mothers in history who will witness her son officially be recognized as a saint in her lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANTONIA SALZANO<\/strong><br><em>Mother of Carlo Acutis<\/em><br><em>It\u2019s an important moment, also because Carlo is having great success all over the world\u2014his intercession, his help. Every day there\u2019s news of miracles, so we are very happy. But above all, it\u2019s a point of arrival because it\u2019s clear that the Church is also expressing itself here in recognition of the global devotion and all the faithful he has around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Assisi, Antonia can pray before him in a different way. Since 2020, his body has been kept here in a glass display. He\u2019s dressed in jeans, sneakers, and a sweatshirt, with a black rosary entwined in his hands. There, Carlo Acutis looks as if he is sleeping \u2013 it's as if those 19 years never passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, for Antonia, going to see him is not a necessity. She insists that his true presence is felt every day in the Eucharist\u2014the sacrament that Carlo used to say was his \u201chighway to Heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ANTONIA SALZANO<\/strong><br><em>Mother of Carlo Acutis<\/em><br><em>I go to the sanctuary from time to time. But during Mass, I have the entire heavenly court with me\u2014I have God, the Virgin Mary, the martyr saints\u2026 When I attend Mass, I feel Carlo\u2019s presence there. I don\u2019t see his body, which it is a body that will be resurrected\u2014this I already know. But I don\u2019t feel the need to go because I carry Carlo in my heart.<br><br><\/em>What is perhaps most surprising is Carlo's <em>normality<\/em>\u2014a boy passionate about computers, living an ordinary life like any other, who found found God in everyday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trans. CRT<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antonia Salzano watched her son Carlo die at the age of 15 from a sudden and aggressive leukemia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":80462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uIfQ-oT4TO8","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bacutis1mammaeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bacutis1mammaint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80546,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80461\/revisions\/80546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}