Sonia Fernández, a regular reader of Exaudi, recently had an unforgettable experience. She arrived in Rome on a Saturday morning at eight o’clock with her family to participate in the canonization of Carlo Acutis. She wasn’t traveling alone: ​​she was part of a group invited by Antonia Salzano, the young Italian’s mother. Among them were Paloma Gasset—wife of journalist José María Zavala—and Eduardo Verástegui.

The ceremony, held in St. Peter’s Square on September 7, 2025, and presided over by Pope Leo XIV, was one of the great milestones of this year for the Church. Carlo Acutis (1991-2006), known as “the cyber apostle of the Eucharist” for his ability to evangelize on the internet, died at just fifteen years old from fulminant leukemia. In just a few years, his figure has become a reference for thousands of young people around the world, and he is the first millennial saint of the Catholic Church.

Sonia, still moved, recounted the multitude of people she met those days. They all shared the same certainty: Carlo had granted them a miracle. Officially, only two have been recognized by the Church on their journey to the altars, but countless testimonies of graces and favors attributed to their intercession are present. Among them was that of Isabel, a woman who received a heart transplant just nineteen months ago. Her story particularly moved Sonia, although she was not the only one: “There were hundreds like her,” she recalls.

In St. Peter’s Square, Sonia noticed Antonia, Carlo’s mother. “She had dark circles under her eyes, but she radiated a serene happiness,” she explains. A peace born of a difficult journey, of personal and family conversion, accelerated by the loss of a son. Now, seeing him proclaimed a saint, Antonia stood firm, a witness to what God had done in her life and in the lives of so many.

Sonia highlights a detail that is sometimes forgotten: Carlo’s siblings. Michele and Francesca, twins born on October 12, 2010, four years after Carlo’s death, were 15 years old at the time, the same age Carlo was when he died. Michele participated by reading the first reading, and Francesca carried the offerings to the altar alongside her parents during the canonization, a gesture that added a deeply personal and emotional dimension to the celebration.

Looking back on those days, Sonia sums it up simply: “My devotion and faith in the Eucharist were some of the most transcendental moments I have ever experienced.”