Will your son be holy?
If after being beatified you perform another miracle of healing and if the Church accepts the miracle after passing the relevant medical examinations, they canonize you and declare you a saint, and now we are on it. Miracles does daily.
From beyond?
Yes, Carlo died in 2006 at the age of 15 of sudden leukemia and he intercedes and attends to the pleas of those who ask through him.
Have you always been Catholic?
Not practitioner. She was the daughter of a publisher, around me everything was writers and artists. The first time I attended mass was at my communion, then at confirmation and my wedding. After a year Carlo was born, a precocious child.
In what?
At 5 months he was already speaking 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, that's why I started studying theology. I think he was touched by God.
He studied theology to have answers.
When my father died of a sudden 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 that.
To pray.
Yes, at that age he began to pray the rosary daily for the souls in purgatory and he did so until his death. That shocked me. At the age of 7 she received communion, and she did not stop going to mass for a single day. "To always be united to Jesus is my life program," he said.
But it 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 the discriminated classmates at school, he made them his best friends.
Was he popular?
Yes. We live in the center of Milan, where there are many beggars sleeping on the street. When he was eight years old, he collected or bought food, clothes and blankets and took them with him, informing them where to shower, sleep and eat.
He had initiative.
At his funeral the church was full, many people had to stay outside, among those who attended I saw many beggars, foreigners and people of other religions, neighborhood janitors with whom he spoke. He had an incredible sensitivity and love for people.
Definitely an example for all.
He was a boy of his time with an enormous sense of reality: he visited the elderly, saved money for the poor, and volunteered in soup kitchens. And he tried to be humble and not stand out, he said that conversion is not a process of addition, but of subtraction. Less me to make room for God.
Where did he get the money from?
Her great-grandmother left her money and we let her use it, she was very smart. At the age of 9, he was reading computer engineering texts that we obtained from the Milan Polytechnic.
He organized exhibitions.
Yes, with audiovisual material that he broadcast over the Internet about 136 Eucharistic miracles recognized by the Church and that science can now verify.
The transubstantiation of the host into the flesh of Christ?
Yes, and the exhibition is touring the world, it's been to every continent, just in the US in 10,000 parishes.
How was his death?
He had been saying for years that he would die of a hemorrhage from a vein that was going to rupture in his brain and that is what caused his leukemia. He died in five days.
Did you know you were going to die young?
A video was made 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 that 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 suffered pain.
Did Carlos heal him?
A devoted priest of Carlo in Brazil started a novena for the boy with his parishioners begging for his mediation and on the third day this 4-year-old boy began to eat without problems. He did a CT scan and the pancreas was perfect. The Vatican consults with ten doctors before proclaiming the miracle.
Are you still doing miracles?
Every day we receive reports of possible healing miracles. Carlo has many faithful in the world. The incorrupt remains of him are exposed for veneration in Assisi, a young man in jeans and sneakers.
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 will have more children." At the age of 44 I got pregnant with twins.
