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The Saints

The saints are proof that holiness is possible in every age and state of life. These pages explain the communion of saints and introduce a few of them, including this library’s patron.

  1. The Communion of Saints One family in heaven, on earth and in purification: why Catholics ask the saints to pray, how they honour them, and how someone is canonised.
  2. Mary, Mother of God Who Mary is in Scripture, what the four Marian dogmas actually say, and why honouring her leads to Christ rather than away from him.
  3. St Carlo Acutis The teenager from Milan who loved computers and the Eucharist, died at fifteen in 2006, and was canonised in 2025. The patron of this library.

Awaiting review The articles in this library are awaiting review by a priest. Until then, read them alongside the Catechism paragraphs they cite, and take questions to your parish.

Acutis library

A library for deepening the Catholic faith, named for St Carlo Acutis (1991–2006), who used the web to show people the Eucharist.

Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Catholic Edition.

Excerpts from the English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church for use in the United States of America copyright © 1994, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.–Libreria Editrice Vaticana. English translation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: Modifications from the Editio Typica copyright © 1997, United States Catholic Conference, Inc.–Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

Excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

The illustrations in The Mass are those of the book it is set from, Rahasia Indah Dibalik Misa.

Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church © 2005 Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Kompendium Katekismus Gereja Katolik © 2009 Konferensi Waligereja Indonesia and Penerbit Kanisius, translated by Harry Susanto, SJ.

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