{"id":10830,"date":"2025-09-06T01:38:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/?p=10830"},"modified":"2025-09-06T07:07:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T07:07:59","slug":"carlo-acutis-becomes-first-millennial-saint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/09\/06\/carlo-acutis-becomes-first-millennial-saint\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlo Acutis becomes first millennial saint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"10836\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/09\/06\/carlo-acutis-becomes-first-millennial-saint\/img_7575\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/09\/05103805\/IMG_7575.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,862\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 12&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1757071867&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.02&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_7575\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/09\/05103805\/IMG_7575-300x216.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/09\/05103805\/IMG_7575-1024x736.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10836\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/09\/05103805\/IMG_7575-1024x736.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/09\/05103805\/IMG_7575-1024x736.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/09\/05103805\/IMG_7575-300x216.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/09\/05103805\/IMG_7575-768x552.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/olga\/uploads\/sites\/26254\/2025\/09\/05103805\/IMG_7575.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/>\u201cTo always be close to Jesus, <\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>that\u2019s my life plan.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Blessed Carlo Acutis has been close to the hearts of Cathedral learners for some time. They take inspiration from his short but remarkable life which included defending the weak in school, building a website to share his faith and helping the poor and homeless of Milan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Blessed Carlo Acutis will be canonized by Pope Leo XIV on Sunday 7th September, making him the first millennial saint. To mark this joyful occasion, Mr Young has gifted the above statue of Carlo Acutis to Cathedral school community.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">We pray that the holy and courageous life of the Church\u2019s newest saint will continue to inspire us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">You can read more about St Carlo Acutis by clicking on the link below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/blessed-carlo-acutis\/\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/blessed-carlo-acutis\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTo always be close to Jesus, that\u2019s my life plan.\u201d Blessed Carlo Acutis has been close to the hearts of Cathedral learners for some time. They take inspiration from his short but remarkable life which included defending the weak in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/2025\/09\/06\/carlo-acutis-becomes-first-millennial-saint\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10830"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10854,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10830\/revisions\/10854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}