Hundreds of people are making a pilgrimage to a church in a large housing estate to honour an Italian teenager nicknamed “God’s influencer”, who will be canonised as the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint next year.
A relic of London-born web-producer Blessed Carlo Acutis , who died aged 15 in 2006, is being viewed at St Anthony’s Church, Wythenshawe, Manchester.
The relic of his heart, kept in an ornate container called a reliquary, is on view in the church.
Such was the demand to see it that church authorities asked people to use a major ticketing website to book timeslots to pray in the church.
