Relics of Blessed Carlo Acutis and St. Manuel Gonzalez Garcia Visit the Cathedral

Blessed Carlo Acutis

Carlos Acutis was born on May 3, 1991 and enjoyed many pastimes of a child during that time – sports, computer and video games, learning about and using the internet, movies, etc. His parents were not particularly religious, but he received communion at age seven and soon began attending Mass and praying before the Blessed Sacrament as often as possible.  

Carlo built a website cataloguing Eucharistic Miracles and visited many of the sites with his family. On the website he wrote, “the more often we receive the Eucharist, the more we will become like Jesus”. 

Carlo died of leukemia in 2006 at 15 years old. He offered his suffering to the pope and the Church. Carlo is the first millennial to be considered Blessed.  

Saint Manuel Gonzalez Garcia

Manuel Gonzalez Garcia was born in Spain in 1877 and always knew he wanted to be a priest. He said, “If I would be born a thousand times; a thousand times I would be a priest”. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1901. As his first assignment, he was assigned a parish which lacked a community. During that assignment, he knelt before the tabernacle and decided to dedicate himself to the Eucharistic works in praise of Jesus Christ. This dedication led to the establishment of the Disciples of Saint John, Eucharistic Missionaries of Nazareth, and the Children of the Reparation. 

Garcia was consecrated as a bishop in 1916. He died in 1940 and is buried in the Cathedral of Palencia close to the tabernacle. He said, “I ask to be buried next to a tabernacle, so that my bones, after death, as my tongue and my pen in life, are saying to those who pass: there is Jesus! There it is! Do not leave him abandoned!”

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