A relic of the recently canonized St. Carlo Acutis will be displayed for veneration at sites in Columbus, Lancaster, Westerville, Hillard and Worthington from Friday, Feb. 13 to Wednesday, Feb. 18, which is Ash Wednesday.
St. Carlo, who died of leukemia in 2006 at age 15, was canonized on Sept. 7, 2025. He was known for his deep faith and his use of modern technology to share his beliefs. He created a groundbreaking website to catalog Eucharistic miracles around the world, earning him the nickname “the patron saint of the internet.”
Stops for his relic will include the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Star of the New Evangelization; St. Joseph Cathedral and the St. Thomas More Newman Center in Columbus; the Basilica of St. Mary of the Assumption in Lancaster; and Westerville St. Paul the Apostle, Hilliard St. Brendan the Navigator and Worthington St. Michael the Archangel churches.
The relic will arrive at the Our Lady of Guadalupe shrine, 154 E. Patterson Ave., on Friday, Feb. 13, at 1 p.m. Confessions are scheduled there at 4:30 p.m., followed by a Mass in English at 5:30, recitation of the rosary and a Mass in Spanish at 7.
It then will be taken to Lancaster on Saturday, Feb. 14, for public veneration at the Basilica of St. Mary from noon to 6 p.m.
The relic will be at the cathedral, 212 E. Broad St., on Sunday, Feb. 15. Confessions will be heard from 9:15 to 10 a.m. and there will be Masses at 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 and 5:15 p.m.
On the following day, the relic will be at St. Paul Church, 313 N. State St. Mass at 8:15 a.m. will be followed by veneration from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., with confessions available throughout the day and recitation of a decade of the rosary every two hours. There will be a Holy Hour, reflection and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 7.
The relic will come to St. Brendan, 4475 Dublin Road, on Tuesday, Feb. 17, where there will be a Mass at 10:30 a.m., followed by veneration. It will be transported to St. Michael Church, 5750 N. High St., for public veneration from 1 to 4 p.m. and from 7 to 10 p.m.
On Ash Wednesday, it will arrive at the Newman Center, 64 W. Lane Ave., at 11:30 a.m., with Masses and distribution of ashes at noon, 5:45 p.m. with Bishop Earl Fernandes, and 8 p.m. The relic will be in the center’s chapel throughout the day until 9 p.m. or whenever students leave for the evening. There also will be a display in the center’s social hall of information on Eucharistic miracles.