Culture Catholic Church may canonize first ‘Gamer’ saint

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by Brandon Lyttle on July 1, 2024 at 9:44 AM, EDT



The Catholic Church is set to canonize their first saint who was also an avid gamer.

Carlo Acutis was a young man who died from leukemia at the age of 15. In life, Acutis was a devout Catholic who brought his parents back into the faith due to his curiosity and interest in the religious rites of the Catholic Church.

Acutis allegedly even donated games to children in need through the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

Since his death in 2006, the charity and devotion of Acutis became more widely known among Catholics. One of the requirements for canonization into sainthood is to have two miracles attributed to the candidate.

The first miracle of Acutis was in 2019 when a mother in Brazil prayed to Acutis to help her son who was born with a pancreatic defect. The defect kept him on an all-liquid diet, but shortly after the prayer the family claims he felt “healed” and became able to eat solid foods again.

The second miracle of Acutis was in 2022 when a young woman in Costa Rica experienced a brain hemorrhage with a low chance of survival. The woman’s mother prayed to Acutis on her behalf and she began breathing on her own shortly after, with all evidence of the hemorrhage allegedly healing.

Acutis is expected to be recognized as a saint during the Catholic Church’s 2025 jubilee.

 

[TenMilesWide]

Catholic saints are intermediaries and role models. You include them in your prayers so they pray for you. Saints are exemplary individuals that represent peak Catholic performance in their deeds and efforts to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to more people.

I was under the impression that they had to perform their 2 miracles while alive to get sanctified. Seems weird that we can pray to even a supremely good "normal" man and attribute miracles to him to elevate to saint.

 

[Safir]

Many are mad a said is pictured wearing jeans, but he was a kid, how is he supposed to look?

It's one of the arguments you can't win. There's a competing tradition in art of portraying heroes (saints, generals, etc), sometimes symbolically, sometimes out of ignorance, as anachronistic larpers (as Greek heroes, Roman emperors, medieval knights, robed apostles), and that gets ridiculed, too.

(I'm not Catholic, but using my IQ of 81) I think jeans is more faithful in spirit, more universal/godly, and better for outreach.

 

[Smegward]

is the pope gonna play it now?

 

[TerrifyingPterodactyl]

I thought gamers never die, they just respawn. Did he respawn yet?

Nope, waiting for the rest of the team to finish the SnD match. Just flipping through everyone's cams watching his team fuck up at every turn probably drinking Mountain Dew windex flavor.

 

[Blue Gem Kosher Queen]

I was under the impression that they had to perform their 2 miracles while alive to get sanctified. Seems weird that we can pray to even a supremely good "normal" man and attribute miracles to him to elevate to saint.

I didn't say the miracle part because is on the article.

 

[AnsemSoD1]

I thought gamers never die, they just respawn. Did he respawn yet?

In a better place, hopefully.

 

[TenMilesWide]

I didn't say the miracle part because is on the article.

I just meant it as a follow-on from the "saints are exemplary individuals" line. I thought the idea was that they had to display that exemplary nature by performing miracles in life. Keeping a man in your prayers to attribute posthumous miracles feels like cheating.

 

[Male Idiot]

Saint Acutis, patron of gamers, help me noscope in Fortnite on this day of days!

Also Kek at the silly american weirdo cults not knowing what a saint is. It is a hero unit with a divine connection that helps you pray harder and increases your buffs.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

Shouldn't you be praying to God or something? Why do Catholics pick the weirdest people to be saints?

yeah something i've found weird and off about catholics. you dont pray to jesus but instead to some weirdo who the catholic church tells you to.

That is some loose fucking "miracle" criteria. Did the kid even meet any of those people or did the moms just "pray" to him remotely?

honestly those miracles mean it is possible for terry to be anointed a saint. just need to pray to him whenever you are sick and when you get better it is a miracle. wonder if i pray to him that my buggy and terrible code works does that also count as a miracle?

 

[Ghost of Biden]

Saint Forsen

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

Saint Acutis, patron of gamers, help me noscope in Fortnite on this day of days!

Also Kek at the silly american weirdo cults not knowing what a saint is. It is a hero unit with a divine connection that helps you pray harder and increases your buffs.

Saint Acutis, I beseech thee to improve my Nemesis spawns and Celestial Lotus drops that I may finish crafting the Rah'Zin's set in thy name. Im nomine patri, et filii, et eapiritu sancti, amen.

 

[fresh pair of socks]

That is some loose fucking "miracle" criteria. Did the kid even meet any of those people or did the moms just "pray" to him remotely?

The miracles must occur after death, so he wouldn't have physically met either of the people. In order for these healing acts to be accepted as miracles, the sick must get better after invoking the would-be saint's name, and it must be in a way that cannot be understood by any scientific or mundane explanation.

If someone with terminal, inoperable cancer prays to Carlo or their family does on behalf of their loved one, and the cancer spontaneously vanishes, that could be considered a miracle. The Catholic Church would then investigate to make sure it met the requirements for an official miracle. If another person with cancer prays and then gets better following chemotherapy, that would not be considered a miracle.

 

[Tablet County]

Catholicism is built around idolatry and idol worship. They even have an altered Ten Commandments.

They were written by Jews anyway.

 

[indigoisviolet]

Forgive me Father, for I have sinned.

I used a keyboard aimbot in professional CS:GO three times because I am a sniveling no-skill little bottom bitch.

"Say 50 Hail Carlos, and perform 200 teabaggings, next..."

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

I support this for the memes alone. I’m not Catholic but I’m going to make this guy my screensaver for when I play CoD, Master Chief Collection, etc. Deus Vult tranny heathens.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

yeah something i've found weird and off about catholics. you dont pray to jesus but instead to some weirdo who the catholic church tells you to.

That's not how it works. We pray to Jesus and God all the time in every prayer we make. We pray to him directly.

The thing with Saints and Mary is that they are humans so blessed that God listens directly to them due to their virtues that if they intercede for you, God will listen to them (in Mary's case, she's also Jesus' mother and he listens to her). The miracles they perform is not THEIR power, it's GOD's power. He does it because they have a special favor from God. And that can be any of us if we abandon sin and we become close to saints. We just don't do it. That's why they are special: they are without sin.

When we Catholics pray to saints, we're not praying to them but to their influence. For sake of brevity, we might address them directly, but we do know it's not them doing the miracle, but God. They are just giving us help and intercede for us, specially when they're patrons of a cause, like St. Anthony being the patron of love, St. Judas (not that one) for lost causes, etc. St. Peter is also patron of fishers, he was celebrated by fishermen yesterday putting him on a boat and sail with him to bless their work.

And it's not even saints, but also the ones who departed and who we think they are in Heaven. I've many times prayed for people I've lost that I am sure already reached grace to intercede for me as they are closer to God. Anyone can do that, you can ask me to pray for you to, it's not heretic. A nun's gonna be closer to God than me because she's less sinful than I am, to give an example.

 

[Calandrino]

yeah something i've found weird and off about catholics.

That and the flesh eating and blood drinking. Nice cathedrals though.

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

wtf i love Catholicism now, the only organization that recognizes the oppression of us gamers

 

[Changed later]

If you want to be technical, everyone who goes to Heaven is a Saint. When the Catholic Church canonizes someone as a Saint, they're saying "This guy is definitely in Heaven, we're 100% sure on this."
Is this guy in Heaven? Barring anything damning coming to light, it's probable. Is it a sure thing? I don't think so.

 

[FedPostalService]

Does he have any silver medals made for him yet? I unironically want one.

I just meant it as a follow-on from the "saints are exemplary individuals" line. I thought the idea was that they had to display that exemplary nature by performing miracles in life. Keeping a man in your prayers to attribute posthumous miracles feels like cheating.

Tell me you’re a Protestant without telling me you’re a Protestant