I have difficulties with some of the devotions surrounding the beatification today (if you’re reading this on 10 October) of a boy born in London. Carlo Acutis was Italian really, and his parents returned to Milan after his birth in 1991.
He is billed as a computer whiz, and his body, on display for veneration at Assisi, sports a pair of Nike trainers. These might possibly remind the historically inclined of the early Christian inscription, “Iesous Christos Nika”.

That’s all fine. I suppose Blessed Carlo’s sanctity lay in his offering the 15 years of his life, shortened by leukemia, for the Church and the poor, all related to the Eucharist. This is where we get to the difficult bit.

Carlo put together a computer project cataloguing Eucharistic miracles round the world. There is online material, badly translated into English.