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While the body of Blessed Carlo Acutis may appear incorrupt, it was never officially declared so.
When searching the internet for images of Blessed Carlo Acutis’ tomb, it may appear at first glance that the teenage-saint’s body is incorrupt.Reports are also confusing, as some Italian news reports from 2020 claimed that his body was incorrupt.
However, the official word is that his body is “not incorrupt.”
Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi said at the Mass at the opening of the tomb on October 1, 2020, that, “Today we … see him again in his mortal body. A body that has passed, in the years of burial in Assisi, through the normal process of decay.”
As stated in a previous article on Aleteia, Fr. Carlos Acácio Gonçalves Ferreira, the rector of the shrine where Carlo’s tomb is, said that his body was discovered “fully integral,” though not intact.
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Is the body of Blessed Carlo Acutis incorrupt?
While the body of Bl. Carlo Acutis may appear incorrupt, it was never officially declared so.
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