The show will offer two performances, at 17.00 and 20.30, and will arrive in Zaragoza after touring different Spanish dioceses. The production was created in Cuenca, promoted by the San Julián Seminary together with the Youth and University Ministry delegations, and involves more than 140 people on stage and behind the scenes.
Carlo Acutis was born in London on May 3, 1991, to an Italian family that returned to Milan a few months later, where he grew up. He was a teenager who enjoyed computer science and computers, but was also deeply religious. That combination became one of the defining features of his story: he used his technological knowledge to spread his faith online.
One of his best-known projects was research into Eucharistic miracles that had occurred in different parts of the world, which he began when he was around 11 years old. The work eventually became an exhibition featuring numerous documented cases and materials that later circulated among parishes and communities in many countries.
It was precisely his natural relationship with new technologies that led to his popular nickname, “the saint of the internet.” His story has become especially popular among young people because it represents a form of holiness linked to an apparently ordinary life: school, friends, computers and the interests of a teenager at the beginning of the 21st century.
HIS LIFE TURNED INTO A MUSICAL
That story is the starting point for "Original, el paso de Carlo". The idea emerged during a prayer at the Cuenca Seminary, when José Antonio Fernández found a novena dedicated to Acutis and suggested to seminarian Jorge Mora that he play the young man in a musical. The project began to take shape from that proposal.
In addition, the show was recognized in 2024 with one of the Bravo Awards presented by the Spanish Bishops’ Conference. It will now arrive at Zaragoza’s Congress Palace, with two opportunities to see it, at 17.00 and 20.30.
