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The 25 Hidden Easter Eggs

#1: The Culture

#2: The Christians

#2: The Christians

 All of the black, light gray, dark gray, and white figures represent the culture of death who have their weapons fixed on the crucifix. The crucifix is the focal point of the piece.

#2: The Christians

#2: The Christians

#2: The Christians

 The 187 outward facing colored figures represent Christians who are fighting against the culture of death. Carlo documented 187 Eucharistic miracles on his website.

#3: The Disciples

#2: The Christians

#4: The Greatest Evangelist

 The 11 standing 3 inch tall cowboys and Indians represent 11 disciples, Judas is not pictured. The early church fathers are larger because we stand on their shoulders. 

#4: The Greatest Evangelist

#4: The Greatest Evangelist

#4: The Greatest Evangelist

Saint Paul is depicted having fallen off his horse on the road to Damascus. The great majority of Christians today have been a seed of St. Paul. 

#5: The Beautiful Game

#4: The Greatest Evangelist

#6: Carlo's Miracle Sisters

 The background of the piece is grass (not green paint) with two soccer goals because Carlo loved to play the beautiful game.

#6: Carlo's Miracle Sisters

#4: The Greatest Evangelist

#6: Carlo's Miracle Sisters

 On the four year anniversary of Carlos' death, Mrs. Acutis gave birth to twins, Francesca and Michele. Antonia attributes this health pregnancy to the intercession of Carlo.

#7: Carlo's Pets

#8: Gotta Catch Em' All

#8: Gotta Catch Em' All

Carlo had 4 dogs and 2 cats growing up which are seen relaxing around his desktop computer work station. Carlo loved to make short films with his animals and believes they go to Heaven. 

#8: Gotta Catch Em' All

#8: Gotta Catch Em' All

#8: Gotta Catch Em' All

Various Pokémon are scattered around the piece, one of Carlo’s favorite video games. This is symbolic of the way Carlo captured each Eucharistic miracle.

#9: The Saint In Nikes

#8: Gotta Catch Em' All

#9: The Saint In Nikes

 The white soldiers on Carlo’s backpack straps are wrapped in Nike shoe laces because this is what he wears in his tomb.

#10: John 10

#12: Carlo's Second Miracle

#9: The Saint In Nikes

The white soldiers inside the gate represent sheep in the sheepfold from John 10. Carlo, although very young, did not hop the fence, but entered obediently through the Gate.

#11: Carlo's First Miracle

#12: Carlo's Second Miracle

#12: Carlo's Second Miracle

The first miracle attributed to Carlo was the miraculous healing of a 4 year old

Brazilian boy, Mattheus. He was born with a malformed pancreas forcing him to vomit his food. Matheus said, “stop vomiting” as he venerated an image of Carlo's relic, immediately he had an intense hunger for steak and fries which he was able to keep down for the first time. The steaks are easy to see, keep scrolling to find the fries!

#12: Carlo's Second Miracle

#12: Carlo's Second Miracle

#12: Carlo's Second Miracle

A young woman named Valeria fell off her bicycle while studying in Florence and suffered severe head trauma. The day her mother, Liliana, made a pilgrimage to Carlo, Valeria showed miraculous progress and soon her hemorrhaging entirely disappeared. The bicycle is placed on Carlo’s head.

#13: The Eucharist is My Highway to Heaven

#13: The Eucharist is My Highway to Heaven

#13: The Eucharist is My Highway to Heaven

This highway is depicted in the bottom left

corner. The highway also shows Jesus’s path to becoming our living bread. Jesus is shown carrying his cross, dying on it, and then resurrected. (Did you notice the fries from #11 are the yellow lane divider?)

#14: My Son Carlo

#13: The Eucharist is My Highway to Heaven

#13: The Eucharist is My Highway to Heaven

The yellow road sign is cut directly out of my mom's copy of Antonia’s book, My Son Carlo (Sorry mom). Pretty cool

how perfectly it fits! *The text size was not manipulated*

#15: Video Games Redeemed

#13: The Eucharist is My Highway to Heaven

#15: Video Games Redeemed

The original Nintendo NES video game controller represents Carlo’s love for video games but he always played in moderation, only 1 hour per week.

#16: Look! Dolphins!

#15: Video Games Redeemed

Carlos's favorite animal was the dolphin. He prayed to Jesus to see dolphins while on vacation with his grandfather and a pod of more than a dozen swam alongside their boat. Carlo’s grandfather “had never seen anything like this in his life.” Carlo researched dolphins in Christian iconography, they are a symbol of Christ’s salvation and protection for sailors…including me on Semester at Sea.

#17: Motherboards Repurposed

#18: Heart + Mind = Conversion

The green motherboard’s of course represent Carlo’s love for computers and his knowledge of coding and technology. They were also recycled from a broken speaker that was left on the side of the road in Minnesota. Symbolic of how Carlo repurposed technology for the Lord.

#18: Heart + Mind = Conversion

#18: Heart + Mind = Conversion

The green motherboard over Carlos’s heart is connected via a single red cable (vein) to the motherboard on his mind showing that Carlo’s love for God in his heart informed his mind, the two were not separate.

#19: Heartbeat for God

#20: The Height of Sainthood

#20: The Height of Sainthood

When the piece is rotated  sideways, that same red vein transforms into a pulse line, forming 2 heartbeats. 2 heartbeats also symbolic of his intercession giving life to twin sisters.

#20: The Height of Sainthood

#20: The Height of Sainthood

#20: The Height of Sainthood

This red cable/vein/pulseline is also exactly Carlo's height when stretched out straight, 1.82 meters, or 5 '11". This was no accident, much like Carlo's life, he lived with deep intentions in all his actions. 

#21: All Things To All Men

#20: The Height of Sainthood

#21: All Things To All Men

*My personal favorite Easter egg* The 10 different adapters coming from the USB on the motherboard over Carlo’s heart are “charging” Christian’s who encounter the Lord through Carlos’s website. The different colors and adapter heads represent Carlo being “all things to all men” and casting a wide net for the Lord to sort.

#22: The Opponent

#23: Behold, Your Mother

#21: All Things To All Men

The ominous camouflaged white cable which comes in from an unidentified source in the bottom right corner represents the serpent, Satan, who is silently suffocating/tripping figures by comparison. Technology can be used as a weapon for God’s kingdom as Carlo showed us or it can be wielded against it.

#23: Behold, Your Mother

#23: Behold, Your Mother

#23: Behold, Your Mother

The blue rosary is a 3rd class relic of Carlo that Alli gave me which is wrapped around the motherboard over Carlo’s heart, symbolizing his deep devotion to Mary. Mary is also depicted at the foot of the crucifix. 

#24: Weighted Prophesy

#23: Behold, Your Mother

#23: Behold, Your Mother

The miniature scale represents Carlos' prophecy that he would pass away when he weighed 156 lbs/70 kilos

#25: Let Us Die As GOD'S ORIGINALS! AMEN!

Finally, the 25th hidden Easter Egg, for we are now in the Easter season! May 1st is my 25th birthday and I could not think of a better gift than to gift this piece to Saint Carlo Acutis’s mother. My favorite quote of St. Carlo is, “All people are born as originals but many die as photocopies.” In honor of this beautiful quote, and the unrepeatability of this piece, never to be mass produced, we will take a polaroid photograph and glue it over Carlo’s heart and I will sign the bottom.

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