The story
Carlo Acutis was a young Catholic known for ordinary friendships, practical charity, devotion to the Eucharist, and an unusual instinct for using the internet in service of faith. His short life has become especially meaningful to young Catholics navigating holiness in a digital age.
His exhibition cataloging Eucharistic-miracle traditions helped many people encounter those stories geographically. Catholic Tourist carries forward a small part of that practical instinct by mapping the places, while clearly distinguishing documented shrines and surviving objects from historical traditions or localities still under research.
How to read this pilgrimage
Assisi holds Carlo’s tomb, while the wider collection invites a journey across many countries and centuries. Every destination should be read with its individual evidence and Church-status notes.
St. Carlo Acutis, pray for us.