Martinelli, the emergency physician who treated me after my drowning, now serves as the foundation’s chief medical consultant and has documented what he describes as incontrovertible evidence of supernatural intervention in medical cases that defy all known scientific explanation.

At the recent medical conference in London, Dr.

Martinelli presented data on 63 cases of medically impossible survivals that had been attributed to St.

Carlo’s intercession.

As a physician with 42 years of experience, Dr.

Martinelli declared before an audience of international specialists, “I can state categorically that these cases represent phenomena that transcend the known laws of medicine and physics.

We are not talking about improbable recoveries, but about complete reversals of pathological processes that according to all scientific knowledge should have resulted in inevitable death.

One of the most extraordinary dimensions of the ministry that emerged from my experience has been the development of what we call St.

Carlo intercession networks.

global communities of families who have experienced miracles through his intercession and who now support each other spiritually.

These networks operate in more than 60 countries and provide specialized pastoral support for people going through crisis similar to those that led the founding families to invoke St.

Carlos intercession.

Thomas from Australia, whose survival of the shark attack I mentioned earlier, now directs a network in the Asia-Pacific region and has established support centers in 12 countries that provide free spiritual counseling for people facing life-threatening situations.

St.

Carlos saved my life when I was being attacked by a shark, Thomas wrote to me recently.

And now I can be an instrument for him to save others who are facing their own desperate moments.

The European Network, led by a young woman named Sophia from Italy, who was healed from a brain tumor through Carlo’s intercession, focuses specifically on families dealing with serious illnesses.

Her post-miracle accompaniment program helps families process and integrate experiences of supernatural healing in ways that strengthen their faith without creating dependencies or unrealistic expectations about future miracles.

During this period, we have also developed what we believe to be the most comprehensive documentation ever compiled about patterns of miraculous intercession by an individual saint.

Our studies have identified specific characteristics of how St.

Carlo responds to invocations during crisis, including his particular propensity to protect young people during accidents, his special effectiveness in cases of diseases affecting adolescence and young adults, and his unique ability to provide spiritual guidance to youth who are discerning religious vocations.

Father Marco de Benedetto, a theologian specializing in mystical phenomena from the Pontipical Gregorian University, has studied our archives extensively and has published several academic articles about what he describes as systematic and verifiable heavenly intercession.

According to Father De Benedetto, the cases documented by our foundation represent extraordinary empirical evidence of the continued activity of canonized saints in promoting the spiritual and physical well-being of devoted faithful.

My own relationship with St.

Carlo has continued deepening during these years of serving as a witness to his intercession.

During my daily prayer time before his image, I frequently experienced interior guidance about specific cases to investigate, families to contact, and ways to present testimonies that will be most effective in strengthening the faith of particular audiences.

This guidance has resulted in decisions that have led to the discovery of some of the most extraordinary miracles we have documented.

One particularly memorable experience occurred during a conference in Japan where I felt a strong interior prompting to invite the audience to share experiences of intercession they had never reported publicly.

During the session that followed, eight different families came forward to testify about miracles they had experienced but had kept private for years.

These testimonies resulted in the documentation of some of the most impressive cases in our archives, including two resurrections after clinical death and multiple instant healings from terminal conditions.

As a result of my work documenting St.

Carlo’s miracles, I have also had the privilege of witnessing extraordinary spiritual transformations in families who initially had been skeptical about supernatural phenomena, but who became convinced after experiencing direct intercession.

Atheist doctors have developed profound Catholic faith after witnessing healings that defied scientific explanation.

Families who had lost faith after personal tragedies have rediscovered hope after experiencing St.

Carlo’s protective intercession.

The foundation has also launched a digital platform using my original web development skills in service of this mission that allows people worldwide to submit miracle testimonies, request prayers to St.

Carlo, and connect with others who have experienced his intercession.

The platform receives more than 100,000 visits monthly and has become a hub for a global community devoted to St.

Carlo and convinced of his powerful heavenly intercession.

In March 2026, I was invited by the Pontipical Council for the New Evangelization to present at a Vatican Conference on Effective Evangelization of Youth in the Digital Age.

During my presentation, I shared how St.

Carlo’s own use of technology to spread faith through his Eucharistic miracles website had inspired our approach to documenting and sharing modern miracle testimonies.

St.

Carlo understood something profound.

I told the conference attendees.

He understood that technology is not inherently secular or opposed to faith, but is a tool that can be used to spread the gospel and to help people encounter the reality of God’s love and power.

Through our digital platforms, we are continuing Carlo’s mission of using technology to evangelize, to inspire faith, and to demonstrate that miracles are not ancient legends, but present realities.

The most profound lesson I have learned during these years is that miracles are not exceptional events that occur only in past ages.

But regular manifestations of God’s love that are available to anyone who approaches with authentic faith during moments of desperate need.

St.

Carlo Autis has demonstrated that sanctity can manifest through any generation and that saints continue to intercede actively for us in ways that are as tangible today as they were during the first centuries of Christianity.

Last month, I returned to Bocadasi Beach for the first time since my drowning.

Standing on the shore, looking out at the Mediterranean, I felt overwhelming gratitude for the miracle that had saved my life and for the mission that had emerged from that desperate moment underwater.

I thought about the 17 minutes I’d spent beneath the surface, about Carlo’s presence protecting me from death, about the mysteriously transported relic that appeared in my hand, and about the nearly two EO families whose miracle testimonies we had now documented.

As I stood there, a young man approached me and said, “Are you Alessandro Ferry? I saw you speak at a conference in Milan.

Your testimony about St.

Carlos saving you from drowning changed my life.

I had been struggling with addiction and depression, but hearing your story gave me hope that God could work miracles in my life, too.

I started praying to St.

Carlo, and he helped me find the strength to get clean and to rebuild my life.

Thank you for being willing to share what happened to you.

This encounter reminded me why sharing my testimony despite the vulnerability and exposure it requires is so essential.

My miracle was not just for me.

It was meant to be shared to inspire faith to give hope to others in desperate situations and to demonstrate that St.

Carlo Autis is powerfully interceding from heaven for anyone who calls upon him with sincere faith.

If my testimony about miraculous survival through the intercession of St.

Carlo Autis has touched your heart, especially if you are facing your own crisis or know someone who needs hope during desperate moments.

I encourage you to invoke the intercession of this powerful young saint.

You do not need perfect words or extraordinary faith.

A simple and sincere invocation during moments of need can result in intervention that will change your life forever.

Before you finish reading this testimony, I want to ask you to do something important.

Share this story with someone who might benefit from knowing that miracles are real and that saints truly intercede for us in our modern world.

Perhaps you know someone who is facing a life-threatening illness, who has lost hope, who is struggling with faith, or who simply needs to be reminded that God’s love is active and powerful in our lives.

Your sharing of this testimony could be the catalyst for their own miracle.

In the comments, I would love to hear from you about any experience you have had with heavenly intercession or simply how this story has impacted your perspective on the reality of contemporary miracles.

Your testimony could be exactly the confirmation another person needs to invoke St.

Carlos’s help during their own crisis.

Remember that my survival began with a simple prayer during a desperate moment.

Carlo Autis, if you are really a saint, please help me now.

I am not ready to die.

Save my life.

Those words spoken underwater as I was sinking toward death resulted in a miracle that has now touched thousands of lives around the world.

May St.

Carlo’s intercession continue to protect and bless young people everywhere who need hope, healing, and confirmation that they are never alone in their struggles.

St.

Ko Autis pray for

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