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Relics of young Catholic saint Carlo Acutis visit Melbourne school
Relics associated with Carlo Acutis were displayed at a Mass attended by about 500 students at Antonine College, a Maronite Catholic school in Melbourne’s Pascoe Vale South.
Acutis was an English-born Italian teenager who died of leukaemia in 2006, aged 15, and was declared a saint by Pope Leo in 2025.
He is known for using websites and social media to share his Catholic faith and for encouraging people to help others.
The relics on display included tissue from the sac around his heart and strands of his hair.
Students viewed them, received blessings and wrote prayers to be sent to his tomb in Assisi, Italy.
A Catholic lay group is taking the relics to 53 Australian cities over four months to encourage people, especially young people, to follow Jesus and do good.
The visit is part of a wider effort to introduce Acutis and his example to communities across Australia.
Relics of Catholic saint Carlo Acutis were displayed at Antonine College, a Maronite Catholic school in Pascoe Vale South, Melbourne.
About 500 students attended a Mass in his honour on Wednesday.
The relics included pieces of tissue from around Acutis’s heart and strands of his hair.
The visit is part of a Catholic Church-approved tour intended to inspire people, particularly young people, to follow Jesus and do good.
The Australian tour is taking the relics to 53 cities over four months.
- Who
- About 500 Antonine College students attended the Mass. The relics were brought by the Friends of St Carlo Acutis Australia.
- What
- Relics of Carlo Acutis were displayed at a school Mass and students were blessed with the reliquaries.
- When
- Wednesday; the article was published on October 11, 2026.
- Where
- Antonine College in Pascoe Vale South, Melbourne.
- Why
- Organisers said the visit aimed to inspire people, particularly young people, to follow Jesus and do good.
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He challenges them, but he also gives them a hope and a way to come to God
To have that opportunity for the relics to visit her, with her unable to visit them herself, was very special
Carlo Acutis died of leukaemia aged 15.
Pope Leo canonised Acutis.
About 500 students attended a Mass in Acutis’s honour at Antonine College and viewed his relics.
Friends of St Carlo Acutis Australia is taking the relics to 53 Australian cities.
- School
- Antonine College, Pascoe Vale South
- Attendance
- About 500 students
- Relics
- Pieces of the pericardium and strands of Acutis’s hair
- Tour
- 53 Australian cities in four months
- Age at death
- 15
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