What I’m about to share with you changed not only my life but my complete understanding of the reality of miracles and the intercession of saints in our modern world.

My name is Aleandro Ferry.

I am 24 years old.

I live in Genoa, Italy.

And I’m the young man who survived what marine rescue specialists described as the most catastrophic drowning incident in Mediterranean coastal history.

An accident where according to all medical calculations I should have died within 4 minutes of submersion, but where the desperate invocation to blessed Carlo Acutis during the final moments before losing consciousness resulted in what six independent medical specialists have officially declared as survival medically inexplicable and unprecedented in drowning cases.

Before diving into the exact details of what occurred on August 12th, 2023 at 3:47 in the afternoon at Bocadas Beach near Genoa and how a young man I barely knew superficially became the saint who literally saved my life in ways that defy all medical logic.

I want to know you.

Where are you watching me from right now? Have you ever had an experience where you felt that someone from heaven helped you in a desperate moment? Or have you lived situations where it seemed that only a miracle could save you? Share in the comments from what place in the world you are accompanying me because this testimony needs to reach people who are going through difficult moments and who need to know that saints really intercede for us in tangible and powerful ways.

And if something in your heart tells you that this story could strengthen your faith in the reality of modern miracles and in the power of heavenly intercession, press that subscribe button right now because what you’re about to hear could be exactly the confirmation you have been waiting for that God still works extraordinary wonders through his saints.

To fully understand the magnitude of the miracle I experienced, I need to explain to you who I was before the accident and why invoking Carlois in those desperate moments was almost instinctive.

Despite the fact that my relationship with the Catholic faith was at best superficial, I grew up in a nominally Catholic family in Genoa, where attending Sunday mass was more a social tradition than an authentic spiritual practice.

During my teenage and early adult years, I had developed what many of my contemporaries would consider a modern perspective on religion.

respect for traditions but deep skepticism about miracles, saints, and anything that could not be explained scientifically.

I was working as a freelance web developer and graphic designer in Genua, passionate about technology, digital art, and social media with ambitious plans for a career in the tech startup world.

My life was completely focused on material and professional goals with very little time or interest in spiritual matters.

However, there was one notable exception to my general religious skepticism.

Since I had learned about Carlo Autis during his beatification in 2020, something about his story had captured my imagination in a way I could not fully explain.

Perhaps it was because Carlo had been young like me, or because he had used technology for spiritual purposes in ways that seemed innovative to me, or simply because his cheerful and modern personality contrasted with the stereotypical images of holiness I had had during my childhood.

During the 3 years between his beatatification and my accident, I had occasionally read about Carlo had visited his tomb in a CC once out of curiosity, and had kept a small prayer card of him in my wallet, not out of particular devotion, but rather as a tenuous connection to something I felt might be authentically holy in a world that often seemed lacking in genuine transcendence.

August 12th, 2023 started as a perfect summer day on the Liurian coast.

I had taken the afternoon off from work to enjoy the unusually calm sea conditions at Bokadas, a picturesque fishing village on the outskirts of Genua that had been my favorite swimming spot since childhood.

The water was crystal clear, the temperature was ideal, and there were only a handful of other swimmers enjoying the quiet beach.

It was exactly the type of afternoon where you feel young, carefree, and completely in control of your life.

Around 3:30 p.

m.

, I decided to swim out further than usual to reach a rocky outcrop about 300 m from shore that offered spectacular views of the coastline.

I was a strong swimmer with years of experience in these waters, and the conditions seemed perfect for the swim.

What I did not know, and what would become clear only during the subsequent investigation, was that an unusual underwater current pattern had developed that afternoon due to a combination of tidal changes and recent coastal construction work that had altered the seabed topography.

About halfway to my destination, I suddenly felt myself being pulled sideways and then downward by a force that seemed impossibly strong.

Within seconds, I went from confident swimming to desperate struggling as the current dragged me away from shore and began pulling me under the surface.

I tried every swimming technique I knew, attempted to fight against the current, did everything my lifeguard training from years ago had taught me, but nothing worked.

The ocean seemed to have transformed from a familiar friend into a malevolent force intent on pulling me to the depths.

During those terrifying minutes of struggle, as I repeatedly surfaced, gasping for air, only to be pulled under again, I could see the beach getting further and further away.

I could see people on the shore.

But they appeared as tiny figures, too distant to notice my distress.

My muscles were burning with exhaustion.

My lungs were screaming for air, and I knew with absolute certainty that I was running out of time and energy.

It was during those final moments when I had been pulled under for what I knew would be the last time because I simply had no strength left to surface again that something inexplicable occurred.

As the water closed over my head and I began to sink into the darker depths, the words that came from my mind were a desperate prayer.

Carlo Acutis, if you are really a saint, if you can really intercede for us from heaven, please help me now.

I am not ready to die.

Save my life.

The moment I completed that mental prayer, still sinking deeper into the Mediterranean, I experienced something that remains beyond my ability to fully articulate, instead of the panic and terror that had dominated my consciousness during the struggle.

A profound supernatural calm filled my entire being.

The water around me seemed to change from threatening darkness to something almost luminous, and I had the unmistakable sensation that I was no longer alone in the depths.

Block two, 743 characters.

What happened in the minutes following my desperate invocation to Carlo Akutis defies everything I understood about physical reality and the natural laws governing life and death.

The medical evidence, witness testimonies, and my own vivid memories of the experience all point to an intervention that transcends scientific explanation and confirms the reality of supernatural intercession in our modern world.

According to the official rescue report compiled by the Italian Coast Guard, I was submerged underwater for approximately 17 minutes before my body was recovered by emergency divers who had been alerted by beachgoers who finally noticed my absence.

Dr.

Dr.

Luca Martinelli, the chief emergency physician at San Martino Hospital in Genua, who treated me upon arrival, stated in his medical report, “When the patient arrived at our facility, he had been without oxygen for a period that, according to all medical literature and clinical experience, should have resulted in irreversible brain death within 6 to 8 minutes.

The fact that he survived with full neurological function represents an outcome that has no precedent in drowning cases of this severity.

But what the medical reports could not capture was what I experienced during those 17 minutes beneath the surface of the Mediterranean Sea.

An experience that I remember with a clarity that seems to intensify rather than fade with the passage of time.

In the moment when I invoked Carlo’s intercession and felt that supernatural calm descend upon me, the physical sensation of drowning seemed to disappear completely.

Though I was still underwater, still sinking deeper, I no longer felt the burning in my lungs or the panic of oxygen deprivation.

Instead, I became aware of a presence beside me in the water.

A presence that was invisible, but absolutely tangible.

I heard a voice that was clear and reassuring, but that did not come from any external audible source.

Alessandro, do not be afraid.

You are safe.

Your prayer has been heard.

The voice had a youthful quality, but also an authority that inspired complete confidence.

In that moment, though I did not know it with certainty, I was completely convinced that I was hearing Carlo Acutis responding directly to the desperate invocation I had made moments before.

During what seemed like an extended period, but which according to official timelines lasted only minutes, this presence guided me through what I can only describe as an outof body experience where I could observe my own drowning from an external perspective.

I could see my physical body continuing to sink toward the seabed.

I could see the distorted sunlight filtering down through the water from the surface far above.

I could see my own form that should have been fighting desperately for survival, but instead appeared peaceful, almost serene.

But I could also see something more.

A golden light that seemed to completely surround my body, protecting it from the devastating effects of prolonged submersion.

What is happening to me? I remember asking during this strange experience.

The response I received was both reassuring and prophetic.

You are being protected because your life has a purpose you have not yet fulfilled.

This drowning will not be your end but your beginning.

When you wake up, your life will be different.

And you will use this experience to help others understand that miracles are real and that saints truly intercede for those who invoke them with faith.

During these moments of altered consciousness, I also received what I can only describe as a vision of the future.

I saw myself recovering completely from the drowning.

I saw myself sharing my testimony with thousands of people.

I saw myself helping families who had lost loved ones in similar accidents.

And I saw myself living a life completely transformed by this experience of miraculous intercession.

The vision was incredibly detailed and specific.

I saw myself speaking at conferences in cities I had never visited.

I saw documents with medical terminology I did not understand.

I saw people crying tears of joy as they listened to my story.

And I saw myself working alongside priests and religious sisters in ways that seemed completely foreign to the secular life I had been living.

Most striking of all, I saw myself holding what appeared to be an official church document with Carlos’ image and my own name written beneath it.

When you wake up in the hospital, the voice told me during these final moments of the vision, you will find in your hand something that will confirm that this experience has been real.

Do not doubt what you have lived and do not be afraid to share it with others, no matter how impossible it may seem.

Gradually, this supernatural experience began to fade.

And the last thing I remember before losing consciousness completely was the sensation of being gently lifted, as if invisible hands were carrying me upward through the water toward the distant surface and the light of the sun above.

The next memories I have are fragmented and confused.

The sensation of being pulled from the water, voices of rescue personnel working frantically, the feeling of being transported by helicopter and then complete darkness during what I later learned had been 4 days of medically induced coma while doctors struggled to stabilize my condition and monitor for the brain damage they fully expected to find.

Dr.

Martinelli explained to me later that when I arrived at the hospital, his team had been prepared for what they expected would be a case of severe and oxic brain injury requiring long-term intensive care and likely resulting in permanent cognitive impairment.

We had seen the rescue reports indicating 17 minutes of submersion.

Dr.

Martinelli told me, “In 35 years of emergency medicine, I have never seen a drowning victim survive with intact brain function after more than 10 minutes underwater.

We expected to find severe neurological damage at minimum, more likely brain death.

What the medical team found instead when they performed comprehensive neurological assessments after bringing me out of the induced coma on August 16th defied every precedent in drowning medicine.

Not only was I alive with full consciousness, but every test they performed showed completely normal brain function with no evidence whatsoever of oxygen deprivation damage.

CT scans, MRI imaging, neurological reflex testing, cognitive assessments.

Every single examination came back showing a brain that appeared as if it had never been deprived of oxygen at all.

It is medically impossible.

Guess Dr.

Elena Rossini, the neurologist who supervised my case, stated bluntly during a consultation with my family.

The human brain begins to suffer irreversible damage after 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen.

This patient was without oxygen for nearly three times that duration.

He should not be alive and he certainly should not have normal brain function.

What we are seeing here contradicts everything we understand about the physiology of drowning.

But the most extraordinary confirmation of the supernatural nature of my survival came when I regained full consciousness on August 16th.

as the vision had promised.

When I opened my hand, which the medical staff had noticed had been tightly clenched since my arrival at the hospital, I discovered clutched in my palm a small relic of Carlo Acutis that had not been there before the drowning.

If this story of miraculous survival is resonating with something in your own heart, especially if you have faced desperate situations where only divine intervention could help you, do not move forward without taking action.

Press that subscribe button right now because what comes after this testimony could give you hope and confirmation about the real power of the intercession of saints.

And in the comments, share with me.

Have you ever had an experience where you felt that someone from heaven protected you from some danger? Your testimony could be exactly the confirmation another person needs to strengthen their faith in the reality of modern miracles.

The relic I discovered in my hand when I regained consciousness was a small cloth fragment encased in a sealed plastic requery identified by official documentation as a thirdass relic of blessed Carlo Acutis, a piece of fabric that had touched his mortal remains.

The relic query bore the official seal of the sanctuary of the renunciation in Aisi where Carlo is buried complete with authentication stamps and a small prayer card identifying it as relic number 43 of a limited series of 100 distributed only to families who had reported authenticated miracles through Carlo’s intercession.

The nursing staff who had been monitoring me during the coma confirmed that my hand had been empty when I arrived at the hospital.

They had specifically checked because my clenched fist had required gentle manipulation to ensure proper circulation to my fingers.

The relic had simply not been there during the 4 days of intensive care.

Yet here it was, perfectly preserved and completely dry despite having apparently materialized in the hand of a drowning victim who had been pulled from the sea.

Dr.

Martinelli, despite his scientific training and decades of medical practice, could offer no rational explanation for the relic’s presence.

We documented everything the patient had with him when he arrived.

He told me with an expression that mixed professional confusion with personal wonder.

There was nothing in his hands, nothing in his swimming trunks pockets except a waterloed wallet and keys.

This relic was not among his possessions.

It appeared, for lack of a better term, from nowhere.

The hospital chaplain, Father Giovanni Benedeti, was called to examine the relic and confirmed its authenticity.

After making several phone calls to the sanctuary in Aisi, he returned with astonishing information.

Relic number 43 had been in the possession of a family in Argentina until it had mysteriously disappeared from their home on the evening of August 11th, mere hours before my drowning occurred.

The family had reported the disappearance to the sanctuary, assuming it had been stolen, but had been unable to explain how anyone could have taken it from the locked display case in their private chapel.

Alessandro, Father Benedeti said to me with tears in his eyes, “What you have experienced is not just a miracle of survival, but a miracle that involves the supernatural transportation of a sacred relic across continents and oceans.

This is the kind of phenomenon we read about in the lives of the saints, not something we expect to encounter in a modern hospital in Genua.

” During the days following my awakening, as I underwent extensive medical testing that continued to confirm my impossible recovery, I began sharing the details of my underwater experience with Dr.

Martinelli, the medical team, Father Benedicti, and my family.

The consistency of my account, combined with the physical evidence of the miraculously appeared relic and the medical impossibility of my intact neurological function, began to convince even the most skeptical observers that something genuinely supernatural had occurred.

My parents, who had maintained a nominal Catholic practice similar to my own, were transformed by the experience of nearly losing me and then witnessing my miraculous recovery.

My mother, Franchesca Ferry, told reporters who began gathering at the hospital, “We are simple people who went to church on Sundays out of tradition.

We never really believed in miracles.

But how can we deny what has happened to our son? He should be dead or at best in a vegetative state.

Instead, he is completely healthy and he has this relic that appeared from nowhere.

This is not coincidence.

This is the hand of God working through Carlo Autis.

The medical team, meanwhile, was conducting consultations with drowning specialists from around the world to try to find any precedent for a case like mine.

Dr.

Martinelli contacted colleagues in Australia, the United States, Norway, and Japan, countries with extensive experience in water rescue and drowning treatment.

Not one of them could site a single case where a victim had survived 17 minutes of submersion with zero neurological damage.

Dr.

Robert Anderson, a drowning specialist from Sydney who reviewed my case remotely, stated in his written consultation, “In 40 years of studying drowning cases and survival outcomes, I have never encountered a case that approaches this level of medical impossibility.

The complete absence of hypoxic brain injury after 17 minutes of submersion violates everything we understand about human physiology.

If this case is accurately documented and the evidence suggests it is, then we are looking at an outcome that transcends natural explanation.

On August 20th, 8 days after my drowning, I was visited by Sister Theresa Machete, a nun who worked with the cause for canonization of Carlo Autis.

She had heard about my case through Father Benedeti and had traveled from Rome specifically to interview me about the details of my experience and to examine the miraculously appeared relic.

Alessandro, Sister Teresa told me after listening to my complete testimony, “What you have experienced corresponds exactly with other documented cases of miraculous intercession by Carlo that we have been investigating for his canonization process.

The appearance of an authenticated relic, your description of his voice and presence, and especially your medically impossible survival are consistent with the pattern of miracles we are documenting.

” as she informed me that there were at least 18 other cases under official investigation by the Vatican cases where people in desperate situations had invoked koakutis and had experienced interventions that defied medical or scientific explanation.

Your case, she said, may be particularly significant because you have multiple professional medical witnesses who can testify to the scientific impossibility of your survival and recovery and because the miraculous transportation of the relic provides physical evidence that can be investigated and verified.

During this conversation, Sister Teresa also explained something about the relic that filled me with renewed astonishment.

She showed me photographs and documentation proving that relic number 43 had indeed been in Argentina on August 11th and that the family who possessed it had photographic evidence of it being in their chapel just hours before it disappeared.

The timing of its disappearance corresponded exactly with the moment I had invoked Carlo’s help while drowning in the Mediterranean Sea.

What you are describing is, Sister Teresa said carefully, is not merely an answered prayer or even a simple miracle of survival.

You are describing a billocation of a sacred relic.

Its supernatural transportation from one continent to another instantaneously.

This is the kind of miracle associated with the great saints of church history.

Not something we commonly see in modern times.

Over the following weeks, as I regained my strength and prepared to leave the hospital, I began to understand the profound implications of what had happened to me.

This was not just a personal experience of being saved from death.

It was a public testimony to the reality of supernatural intervention in the modern world.

A testimony that came with responsibilities I had never imagined.

The local media had picked up the story.

And within days, it had spread across Italy and then internationally.

Headlines proclaimed, “General man survives impossible drowning.

A miracle relic appears in drowning victim’s hand.

” And Carlo Autis intercedes in Mediterranean drowning.

Television crews gathered outside the hospital.

Religious publications requested interviews and my social media accounts, which I had used primarily for sharing web design work, were suddenly flooded with messages from people around the world.

The months following my discharge from the hospital on August 28th, 2023 were a period of intense investigation by both medical and ecclesiastical authorities who wanted to fully understand and document the extraordinary circumstances of my survival and recovery.

What had begun as my personal experience of miraculous intercession became an official case study that would eventually be presented to the Vatican as evidence for the canonization process of Carlo Akutis.

Dr.

Martinelli organized a panel of seven independent medical specialists to review my case from different professional perspectives.

This panel included a trauma physician, a neurologist, a pulmonologist specializing in drowning cases, a cardiologist, a radiologist, a hyperbaric medicine specialist, and a forensic pathologist who specialized in drowning deaths.

Over a period of 8 weeks, each specialist conducted their own exhaustive evaluations of my condition, reviewed all evidence from the drowning, and consulted with international colleagues about similar cases.

Doctor Paulo Conti, the pulmonologist on the panel, was particularly thorough in his analysis of what should have happened to my respiratory system during 17 minutes of submersion.

When a person drowns, Dr.

Ki explained to me, “There is a cascade of physiological events that occur with predictable timing.

Within 2 to 3 minutes without oxygen, the person loses consciousness.

Within 4 to 6 minutes, irreversible brain damage begins.

Within 8 to 10 minutes, the heart stops.

By 17 minutes, we would expect to find massive cellular death throughout the brain, heart, lungs, liver, and kidneys.

Doctor Ki performed extensive pulmonary function tests and found that my lungs showed no evidence whatsoever of having been filled with sea water or deprived of oxygen.

According to every marker we can measure, he stated in his report, “These lungs appear to have never experienced drowning.

There is no scarring, no inflammation, no residual damage of any kind.

It is as if the drowning simply did not affect his respiratory system, which is physiologically impossible.

The neurologist on the panel, Dr.

Sophia Lombardi, was equally baffled by her findings.

She conducted every available test of brain function, MRI with advanced diffusion imaging, electroinsphilography, cognitive assessments, memory testing, fine motor control evaluation, and psychological screening.

Every single test came back completely normal, Dr.

Lombardi reported, “Not just acceptable for a drowning survivor.

I mean, completely normal, indistinguishable from someone who has never experienced any neurological trauma whatsoever.

In my 28 years of neurology practice, I have never seen anything remotely like this.

” The medical panel concluded unanimously that my survival could not be explained by non-medical, physical, or environmental factors.

In their final report, they wrote, “The patient Alessandro Ferry survived physiological trauma that based on all available medical and scientific precedents should have resulted in death within 8 to 10 minutes of submersion.

His complete recovery without any neurological, respiratory, cardiac, or systemic deficits represents an event that transcends conventional medical explanation.

While we cannot as scientists affirm supernatural causation, we can definitively state that natural causation is insufficient to explain the documented outcome.

Simultaneously, the ecclesiastical investigation led by Sister Theresa was proceeding through official Vatican channels.

As part of this process, I was interviewed extensively by theologians specializing in mystical phenomena, investigators from the congregation for the causes of saints and medical examiners officially appointed by the Vatican to review miracle claims.

In October 2023, I traveled to Rome for a formal interview with Monsor Carlo Benedeti, who supervised the investigation of potential miraculous cases related to Carlo Autis.

Your case, Monsor Benedeti told me in his office overlooking St.

Peter’s Square, represents one of the most dramatic and wellocumented examples of miraculous intercession we have encountered during our investigation process for Carlos canonization.

The combination of detailed personal testimony, exhaustive medical evidence, and physical confirmation through the supernaturally transported relic creates a particularly compelling case.

He informed me that my case had been officially designated as potential miracle number 12 in the canonization documentation for Carlo, and that if the investigation continued to confirm the supernatural nature of my experience, it could be among the miracles officially recognized that would permit Carlo’s final canonization to saintthood.

During this period of official investigation, I also began to experience profound personal transformations that went far beyond my physical recovery.

The experience of having been literally saved from death by heavenly intercession had fundamentally changed my perspective on life, faith, and my purpose in the world.

The young man who had been skeptical about miracles and superficial in his religious practice had been replaced by someone who knew firsthand the reality of saintly intercession and who felt a profound responsibility to share this truth with others.

I began attending daily mass at my parish church in Genoa, spending regular time in Eucharistic adoration and seriously studying the life and teachings of Ko Audis.

During these hours of prayer and study, I frequently felt the same presence I had experienced during the drowning, a sensation of guidance and companionship that convinced me that Carlo continued to actively intercede in my life.

As I read more about Carlo’s life, I was struck by how much his approach to faith resonated with my own experience and background.

Carlo had been passionate about technology and had used his programming skills to create a website cataloging eucharistic miracles from around the world.

He had been a normal teenager who loved video games, soccer, and his pets, yet had maintained an extraordinary spiritual life centered on daily mass and devotion to the Eucharist.

He had died at only 15 years old from acute leukemia, yet had faced death with remarkable peace and faith.

Learning about Carlo’s life helped me understand why he had responded to my desperate prayer during the drowning.

He had been someone who understood what it meant to be young in the modern world, who had faced death at an age when most people are just beginning to live, and who had interceded for me because he knew what I was experiencing in those terrifying moments beneath the Mediterranean.

3 months after the drowning, I made the decision to completely change my professional trajectory.

Instead of continuing with my web development and design work focused on commercial clients, I decided to dedicate my skills to creating digital platforms that would share testimonies about the reality of modern miracles and help families who had experienced similar trauma.

With the support of Sister Terresa and church authorities, I began building a comprehensive website that would document cases of miraculous intercession by Carlo Akutis.

The response to this project was extraordinary.

Within weeks of launching the initial website, I began receiving messages from people around the world who wanted to share their own experiences of Carlo’s intercession.

Many of these accounts involve young people who had survived impossible situations after invoking Carlo’s help, creating a pattern that suggested Carlo had a particular mission of protecting and guiding youth in crisis.

A family from Brazil contacted me about their daughter who had survived a catastrophic car accident after praying to Carlo.

A young man from the Philippines shared how he had been healed from stage 4 cancer after his family made a novena to Carlo.

A mother from Poland described how her son had been rescued from a collapsed building after she desperately invoked Carlo’s intercession.

These stories became so numerous that I began systematically documenting them, creating an archive of testimonies that would eventually be presented to Vatican authorities.

In December 2023, 4 months after my drowning, I received an invitation that would again change the course of my life.

Pope Francis had requested a personal audience with me to hear my testimony directly and to discuss the impact that my experience was having on promoting devotion to Carlo Akutis around the world.

The prospect of meeting the Holy Father to share what had happened to me was both humbling and terrifying.

The audience took place on December 14th, 2023 in a small reception room in the apostolic palace.

I had expected a brief formal meeting, perhaps 10 or 15 minutes to present my testimony to the Pope.

Instead, his holiness spent nearly an hour with me asking detailed questions about every aspect of my experience and sharing his own reflections on the significance of Carlos’s intercession in the modern church.

Alessandro, Pope Francis said to me after I had finished describing the underwater experience and the appearance of the relic.

What you have experienced is a sign from heaven that is desperately needed in our times.

We live in an age when many young people have lost faith in the supernatural.

When miracles are dismissed as superstition or psychological phenomena.

Your testimony verified by medical science, confirmed by physical evidence and proclaimed by your transformed life demonstrates that God continues to work wonders through his saints.

During our conversation, the Pope confided that he had been praying specifically for Carlo’s intercession for guidance about the timing of his canonization.

Your case, Ba, he told me along with other similar testimonies we have been receiving confirms to me that Carlo is actively interceding from heaven and that the time is approaching for his canonization to saintthood.

The Pope also shared something with me that filled me with a sense of profound responsibility.

He explained that the church was receiving unprecedented numbers of miracle reports related to Carlo Audis, particularly from young people.

Carlos speaks to the youth of this generation in ways that few saints have.

Pope Francis said he was one of them.

He understood technology, modern culture, the challenges of living faith in a secular world.

Now from heaven, he is interceding especially for young people in crisis.

His holiness then asked me if I would be willing to serve as an official witness and investigator for cases of Carlo’s intercession, working directly with the congregation for the causes of saints to document and verify reports coming from around the world.

You have credibility with young people, the pope explained.

You speak their language.

You understand their world and you carry in your own body the evidence of Carlo’s miraculous power.

I want you to help gather the testimonies that will demonstrate to the world that Carlo Acutis is truly a saint for our times.

I accepted this mission with a mixture of excitement and trepidation.

Over the following months, my work documenting miracles related to Carlois expanded into a global effort that took me to more than 15 countries to interview families who had experienced extraordinary intercession.

What I discovered during these travels was a consistent pattern of miracles that confirmed Carlo was interceding actively for people worldwide in ways that defied natural explanation.

In Ireland, I met the Murphy family whose son had been revived after being declared clinically dead for 23 minutes following a farm accident.

During his near-death experience, the young man reported meeting Carlo Autis in a vision where he was told his time on Earth was not finished.

When he regained consciousness, doctors found no brain damage despite the extended period without heartbeat or respiration.

In South Korea, I documented the case of a teenage girl named Mi, who had survived a suicide attempt after invoking Carlo’s help in her final moments of despair.

She described feeling a presence beside her that prevented her from completing the act and filled her with an overwhelming sense of being loved and valued.

The psychological transformation that followed her experience was so complete that her therapist described it as unprecedented in cases of severe depression and suicidal ideiation.

In Mexico, the Gonzalez family shared how their son had been miraculously protected during a school shooting when he prayed to Carlo for help.

Despite being in direct line of fire, bullets seemed to pass around him without causing injury while other students nearby were struck.

Security camera footage showed what appeared to be a distortion or shimmer in the air around the boy during the shooting.

Something investigators could not explain.

In Canada, I met a young woman named Sarah who had been healed from severe epilepsy after her family made a novena to Carlo.

She had been having multiple grand mile seizures daily despite maximum medication and doctors had recommended brain surgery with uncertain outcomes.

On the ninth day of the novena, her seizure stopped completely and subsequent EEG testing showed normal brain activity with no evidence of the electrical abnormalities that had characterized her condition.

These cases, along with dozens of others I documented during my travels, created a comprehensive archive that demonstrated Carlo Autis was interceding miraculously for young people in crisis around the world, particularly in situations involving life-threatening danger, severe illness, mental health crisis, and spiritual despair.

In March 2024, exactly 18 months after my drowning, I received extraordinary news that validated all the months of investigation and documentation I had been conducting.

The congregation for the causes of saints officially recognized my case as an authentic miracle attributable to the intercession of blessed Carlo Akutis.

This recognition meant that my survival would be one of the miracles that could potentially enable Carlo’s canonization.

Cardinal Josephe Fereti, who headed the congregation, announced the decision in a formal statement.

After exhaustive investigation involving multiple medical specialists, theological experts, and careful examination of all evidence, we have determined that the survival of Alessandro Ferry from 17 minutes of drowning submersion with complete absence of neurological or physiological damage cannot be explained by natural means and is attributable to the miraculous intercession of blessed Carlo Autis.

The supernatural transportation of an authenticated relic from Argentina to Italy, appearing in the hand of the drowning victim provides additional confirmation of divine intervention in this case.

The cardinal statement went on to explain that my case combined with another miracle that had been investigated in Poland would form the basis for proceeding with Carlos canonization.

The miracles attributed to Blessed Carlo demonstrate his powerful intercession from heaven and confirm his sanctity.

The cardinal stated, “We are therefore recommending to his holiness Pope Francis that blessed Carlo Acutis be raised to the honors of the altar as a saint of the universal church.

” During the ceremony announcing this decision, I was given the honor of publicly reading my testimony before an assembly of cardinals, bishops, and Vatican officials.

As I described the experience of drowning and Carlos intervention, I noticed several prelets wiping tears from their eyes.

After the ceremony, multiple bishops approached me to share that my testimony had strengthened their own faith in the reality of miraculous intercession.

One bishop from a dascese in Africa told me, “I have always believed in miracles as a matter of doctrine.

But hearing your testimony and seeing the medical evidence has made this belief come alive for me in a new way.

You are living proof that God continues to work wonders through his saints and that Carlo Akutis is powerfully interceding for the youth of our world.

” The months following this official recognition were filled with preparations for what we hoped would be Carlo’s canonization ceremony.

I worked with Vatican theologians to prepare detailed documentation of my miracle, participated in multiple interviews with international media, and continued gathering testimonies from around the world that demonstrated the global scope of Carlo’s intercession.

During this period, I also experienced ongoing confirmations that Carlo continued to actively guide my work and my life.

I frequently received interior prompting about which cases to investigate, which families to contact, and how to present testimonies in ways that would be most effective in strengthening others faith.

On May 3rd, 2025, the feast day of Carlo Audis’ birthday, Pope Francis officially announced that Carlo would be canonized as a saint of the Catholic Church on October 12th, 2025, coinciding with the anniversary of his death.

The announcement sent waves of joy through Catholic communities worldwide, particularly among young people who saw Carlo as someone who understood their lives and challenges.

“Kois will be declared a saint,” Pope Francis proclaimed during the announcement ceremony in St.

Peter’s Square.

Not only because of the holy life he lived during his brief 15 years on earth, but because of the powerful intercession he has demonstrated from heaven.

The miracles attributed to his intercession, including the dramatic survival of Aleandro Ferry and numerous other well-documented cases confirm that Carlo is among the blessed in heaven and that he continues to work on behalf of those who invoke his help.

I was present in St.

Peter Square for this announcement.

Standing with my family and hundreds of young people who had traveled to Rome for the occasion.

When the Pope mentioned my name and my miracle, the crowd erupted in applause, and many turned to look at me with expressions of joy and wonder.

It was a moment of overwhelming emotion, gratitude for my survival, humility at being part of Carlo’s canonization process, and awe at how God had transformed my drowning into a testimony that would help raise Carlo to official saintthood.

The months leading up to the canonization were intense but profoundly meaningful.

I was asked to serve on the planning committee for the canonization ceremony, working with Vatican officials to ensure that the celebration would resonate especially with young people.

We planned for large screens that would display videos of Carlo’s life, contemporary music that reflected his modern spirituality, and testimonies from young people whose lives had been touched by his intercession.

During this preparation period, something remarkable happened that demonstrated Carlo’s continued active presence.

The website I had created to document miracles attributed to Carlo began receiving so many testimonies that we had to expand our verification team to keep up with the submissions.

We were receiving an average of 15 new miracle claims per week from every continent except Antarctica.

Dr.

Martinelli, the emergency physician who had treated me after my drowning, volunteered to serve as chief medical consultant for reviewing these cases.

Alessandro, he told me during one of our meetings, “What we are documenting here is unprecedented in modern church history.

We have medically verified cases of healings from terminal cancer, restoration of sight to the blind, reversal of paralysis, and survival from accidents that should have been fatal.

The pattern is unmistakable.

Carlo Acutis is interceding powerfully from heaven for people in desperate need.

One case that particularly moved me involved a young man from Australia named Thomas who had survived a shark attack after invoking Carlo’s help.

Thomas had been surfing when he was attacked by a great white shark that bit completely through his surfboard and severely injured his leg.

As he was being pulled underwater by the shark, he mentally prayed to Carlo for help.

The shark suddenly released him and swam away and Thomas was able to make it to shore despite massive blood loss.

When he arrived at the hospital, doctors found that the femoral artery in his leg, which should have been severed by the shark bite, was intact, as if the shark’s teeth had somehow missed this critical blood vessel, despite the severity of the wound.

Thomas’ story became one of the testimonies featured in the canonization documentation.

As October 2025 approached, Rome began filling with pilgrims coming for the canonization.

Estimates suggested that more than 200 Saur people would attend the ceremony in St.

Peter Square and the surrounding areas.

Hotels were booked solid.

Special trains were added to bring pilgrims from across Italy and Europe.

And Vatican officials predicted it would be one of the largest canonization ceremonies in recent church history.

On October 11th, the day before the canonization, I participated in a special vigil at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trade, where Carlo’s parents, Andrea and Antonia Akutis, shared their memories of their son.

Hearing them speak about Carlo’s ordinary yet extraordinary life, his love for his dog, his passion for programming, his simple devotion to daily mass, his kindness to everyone he met, made me realize even more profoundly how this young teenager had touched the world.

Carlo once told me, his mother Antonia shared during the vigil, that the Eucharist is my highway to heaven.

He understood at such a young age that holiness is not about doing extraordinary things, but about doing ordinary things with extraordinary love and faith.

Now from heaven, he is helping others find their own highway to God.

The canonization ceremony on October 12th, 2025 was a day I will remember for the rest of my life.

More than 250 AO Zun people filled Saint Peter Square and the Viadela Consilia with millions more watching via liveream around the world.

I had been given the extraordinary honor of reading the account of my miracle during the ceremony, sharing before this massive global audience how Carlo had saved my life during those 17 minutes beneath the Mediterranean.

As I stood at the microphone and began recounting the experience of drowning, of invoking Carlo’s help in desperation, of feeling his presence in the depths, and of waking with the mysteriously transported relic in my hand.

I could see people throughout the square wiping tears from their eyes.

When I described Carlo’s voice telling me that my life had a purpose yet to fulfill, spontaneous applause broke out that lasted for nearly a minute.

At the moment when Pope Francis officially declared Carlo Acutis to be St.

Carlo Acutis, the bells of St.

Peter’s Basilica rang out in celebration, joined moments later by church bells throughout Rome and then throughout Italy.

It was as if the whole world was celebrating the recognition of this young saint who had shown that holiness is possible in the modern age that technology and faith can work together and that God continues to work miracles through those who trust in him.

After the ceremony, I was able to meet Carlo’s parents and thank them for raising a son who became a saint and who had saved my life.

Andrea Akutis embraced me and said, “Carlo would be so happy to know that his intercession gave you a second chance at life.

Use it well, Aleandro.

Help others understand that God’s love is real and active in our world.

That evening, at a reception for families who had received miracles through Carlo’s intercession, I met more than 40 people from around the world whose lives had been transformed by St.

Carlo’s heavenly help.

We shared our stories.

We prayed together.

And we committed ourselves to making Carlo’s intercession known to others who might need his help in their own desperate moments.

One young woman from the United States named Emily told me that hearing my testimony during the canonization ceremony had given her hope during her own crisis.

She had been battling severe depression and had contemplated suicide.

But watching the ceremony and hearing about my survival had convinced her to seek help and to ask St.

Carlo to intercede for her healing.

Your willingness to share what happened to you saved my life today.

Emily told me with tears streaming down her face.

Thank you for being brave enough to tell the world about your miracle.

Today, more than 2 years after my drowning and 6 months after the canonization of St.

Carlo Acudis, I can testify that living as a direct witness to an authentic miracle has transformed not only my own life, but the understanding of thousands of people about the present reality of saintly intercession in our modern world.

What began as a personal experience of impossible survival has become a global movement that is renewing faith in contemporary miracles and strengthening devotion to one of the most powerful saints of our time.

The international foundation of St.

Carlo Acutis for miracle testimonies which I established with church approval in early 2025 now operates in 32 countries and has documented more than 1800 verified cases of miraculous intercession by St.

Carlo.

Our archives include instant healings from terminal illnesses, resurrections after clinical death, supernatural protection during disasters, and dramatic conversions that have transformed entire lives.

Each case is investigated rigorously by teams that include physicians, theologians, and independent researchers applying the same scientific standards that the Vatican uses to verify miracles.

Dr.

Continue reading….
Next »