• About and News

    www.ukmiracles.com was first launched in 2017 as an information point designed to help you bring Saint Carlo Acutis' International Exhibition of Eucharistic Miracles, and accompanying resources, to your Parish or School in the UK. Since 2024 this apostolate has also been making available a First Class Relic of Saint Carlo Acutis.

    www.ukmiracles.com was created by Anna Johnstone, a family friend of the Acutis family, and the Governess, for three years, (2015-2018), to the brother and sister and Saint Carlo. Since 2017 Anna has given presentations on the life and sprituality of Saint Carlo Acutis, facilitated missions, and helped new Saint Carlo apostolates, across the UK. Anna is a British Catholic convert who read Theology at Cambridge.

    In August 2025 the site is undergoing a refresh and update ahead of the Blessed Carlo's rescheduled canonisation on 7th September 2025. The update will be complete by then.

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    BBC Songs of Praise, 24th August 2025, BBC One, 13:15 Modern Day Miracles

    Aled Jones explores the mystery of miracles and whether they still happen in our modern world.

    Aled meets Anna, a close family friend of Blessed Carlo Acutis.

    Anna's chosen hymn, 'Oh Bread of heaven.'

    Songs of Praise - Modern Day Miracles - BBC iPlayer Full episode, available until July 2026

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    Canonisation of Carlo Acutis, 7th September 2025, Rome

    Blessed Carlo Acutis will be canonized by Pope Leo XIV

    Anna will attend the canonization at the invitation of the Acutis family

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    Foundation Retreat, Community of the Transfiguration, of Saint Carlo Acutis,

    Quarr Abbey 10th to 14th October 2025

    If you are a young woman, under 35, interested in attending the retreat and would like to view the new website ahead of its 7th September launch please write to admin@ukmiracles.com for a preview link

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    Community of the Transfiguration, of Saint Carlo Acutis

    Website launching 7th September 2025

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    Pray a 54 day Novena with the Community of the Transfiguration, for your nation. On Zoom.

    Beginning Ash Wednesday 2026, nightly at 8.30pm

    More details will appear on the Community of the Transfiguraion website in due course

  • Upcoming Parish and School Visits

    20.9.25 - 23.9.25 St Peter's Scarborough with Schools

    23.09.23 St Joseph's Church Stokesley 6.30pm

    25.9.25 - 28.9.25 St James' Petts Wood (see publicity below) with Schools

    12.10.25 Quarr Abbey 2pm

    17.10.25 Corpus Christi School, Bournemouth

    30.5.26 - 2.6.26 Corpus Christi, Wokingham with School

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    St James the Great Parish, Orpington will be running the Abide in Me course online from 4th September 2025

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    St James the Great Parish, Orpington. September Veneration Programme

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    St Joseph's Church, Stokesley, 23rd September 2025

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    Quarr Abbey, Ryde, Isle of Wight, 12th October 2025, 2pm

  • Saint Carlo Acutis

    1991 - 2006

    Born, 3 May 1991, London to Italian parents Baptism, 18 May 1991, London, Our Lady of Dolours

    Family returns to Italy, September 1991, to Milan First Holy Communion, 16 June 1998, Italy

    2002 Becomes Parish Catechist 2002 Discovers Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano

    and begins working on Exhibition Confirmation, 24 May 2003

    2005 Exhibition presented at Rimini Festival October 2006, becomes ill

    12 October 2006, Dies, Italy 13 May 2013, Servant of God

    12 October 2013 Mattheus Vianna healed 24 November 2016, Milan, Cause sent to Rome

    5 July 2018, Rome, Venerable 23 January 2019, Body exhumed, 'fully integral'

    10 October 2020, Rome, Blessed 7 September 2025, Rome, Saint

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    'The Eucharist is my motorway to Heaven'

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    The Eucharist is my motorway to heaven

    Saint Carlo fell in love with Jesus and Mary, as a small child, and decided that he would go to Mass every day and pray the Rosary every day. And from the age of 7, this is exactly what he did. At the age of 11 he became a catechist in his local Italian Parish and also discovered the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano. Carlo was amazed by this Miracle and shocked that information about Eucharistic Miracles wasn't readily available. He decided to change this. Widely regarded as a computer genius, he designed the website www.miracolieucaristici.org, and, with the help of his parents, set about collating all the Eucharistic Miracles that have been approved by the Church. This project was to take three years. In October 2006, at the age of 15, Carlo became ill with what appeared to be a virus, but which transpired to be fulminant leukaemia. Carlo died just over a week later. Doctor Jankovic said that Carlo passed through his care like a 'meteor.' Saint Carlo Acutis' downloadable, online Exhibition, rapidly spread all over the world. Carlo's progress towards Canonization has been unusually rapid,

    Dear Saint Carlo Acutis: Pray for us

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    Saint Carlo was a warm hearted and generous child who was loved by his many friends and by his many pets!

    Although Carlo was a conscientious student and studied hard, he was a normal boy, who loved football and his friends, towards whom he was ever generous with his time and in whatever other way he might help them. Carlo also loved his pets.

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    A Johanine Spirituality

    Carlo taught that we can all be like St John, the Beloved disciple, who rested his head on Jesus' heart at the last supper. Carlo said that when we pray before the Blessed Sacrament we can be like St John resting our heads on Jesus' heart and that when we go to Mass we can be like St John at the foot of Jesus' cross on Calvary.

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    Saint Carlo Acutis Official Italian website, with multiple translations, including English language www.carloacutis.com

    For up to date and official information about Saint Carlo Acutis, please visit this website www.carloacutis.com

    It also contains multiple resources including photos that are not copyrighted and are free to use.

    You will see that Saint Carlo Acutis also began three other Exhibitions, one on Our Lady (completed after his death), one on Hell, Purgatory and Heaven and one on Angels and Demons. Saint Carlo embraced the richness of the Catholic faith but also succeeded in living it with great simplicity, gentleness and warmth.

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    Kindness to all those around him, including the poor. A model of a normal, grounded holy lay life

    Saint Carlo was very consistent in his kindness and generosity to all those around him. He offers a wonderful model of holiness amidst the ordinary.

  • Visit Saint Carlo Acutis' Tomb Live

    You can submit a prayer petition here: Carlo Acutis Diretta | Maria Vision Italia

  • Saint Carlo Acutis' catechesis on the Eucharist, with a focus on the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano

    English Translation by Anna Johnstone

  • Some Famous Sayings of Saint Carlo Acutis

    'To be always close to Jesus, that's my life's plan.'

    'The Eucharist is my motorway to heaven.'

    'If we go out in the sun, we get a suntan...but when we get in front of Jesus in the Eucharist, we become Saints.'

    'The Virgin Mary is the only woman in my life.'

    'All people are born as originals but many die as photocopies.'

    'Our goal must be the infinite and not the finite. Infinity is our homeland. We have always been expected in heaven.'

    'The only thing we have to ask God for, in prayer, is the desire to be holy.'

    'Sadness is looking at ourselves, happiness is looking towards God.'

    'I am happy to die because I have lived my life without wasting even a minute of it on anything displeaseing to God.'

    'We can find God, with his Body, Soul and Divinity, present in all the tabernacles of the world! If we think about it we are more fortunate than those who lived two thousand years ago in contact with Jesus, because we have God 'really and substantially' present with us always. It's enough to visit the Church! We have Jerusalem on our doorsteps. Jerusalem is in every Church!'


  • Lovely interview with the mother of Saint Carlo Acutis

    Antonia Salzano Acutis is interviewed by Chris Stefanick

  • International Exhibition of Eucharistic Miracles

    This is Saint Carlo Acutis' original website.

    The website has been updated, since his death, with new, confirmed miracles, and new language translations have also been added.

    www.miracolieucaristici.org

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  • "Saint Carlo Acutis' first great mission was to explain that our Lord Jesus Christ is truly present in the Blessed Sacrament of the Catholic Church. The Exhibition of Eucharistic Miracles is his great life's work. That he was able to conceive and accomplish so great a project is a testament to his spirituality, his 'abiding in Christ,' as one of our Lord's Beloved Disciples.

    May we be inspired by Saint Carlo to graft ourselves onto Christ and generously work to build the Kingdom of Heaven."

    Anna Johnstone

  • Hosting the Exhibition

    Initial things you need to know in order to host the Exhibition

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    The Exhibition Panels

    There are about 160 Panels in the complete Exhibition, covering about 180 Eucharistic Miracles. A Parish would typically mount just 30 panels.

    This being the case you may choose to print 30 panels yourself, retain the Exhibition and lend it locally.

    An example of a selection of about 30 would be:

    Miracles of the Eucharist across the world

    Carlo

    Sacred Heart

    Lanciano x 2

    St Thomas Aquinas

    Sokolka x 3

    Legnica x 2

    Buenos Aries x 3

    Tixtla x 2

    Chirattakonam

    Betania

    Blessed Alexandrina Maria Da Costa

    Andre Frossard

    Poznan

    Montserrat

    Santarem x 2

    Bolsena x 2

    St Claire of Assisi

    Angel of Peace, Fatima x 3

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    Logistics

    Obtaining the Exhibition

    If you are in Scotland and Northern Ireland there is a wonderful combined apostolate of the Exhibition, and a First Class Relic, run by the Blessed Sacrament Fathers in collaboration with Maria Novani and team. The Blessed Sacrament Fathers run LITE - Life in the Eucharist. They were able to build on this foundation to bring Saint Carlo Acutis' mission to Parishes and Schools. Maria Novani's team is exceptionally active. They work with around 30 Panels.

    In Southern England Mike Southern has been evolving a wonderful apostolate, lending (including setting up), 40 Panels of the Exhibition. He is working on expanding the area that he is able to serve. He can be contacted at michael.southern@me.com

    UKmiracles continue to lend the Exhibition. We have the whole Exhibition, 160 panels, (that was mounted at the Eucharistic Congress in Liverpool in 2018), plus 60 panels (lent initially to the Brompton Oratory, the first Parish in the UK to mount the Exhibition).

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    Logistics

    Mounting the Exhibition

    With both Maria Novani's and Mike Southern's apostolate, the Exhibition will be mounted for you. You will need to enquire with them directly.

    UKmiracles supply just the Panels. You will either need to find/hire display boards (this is a picture of the Exhibition at Brompton Oratory), or you will need a lot of blu tac. The Panels do display perfectly well with blu tac, (see the two photos, above, taken during the mission at St Joseph's Thame).

    The UKmiracles Panels are very light, but strong and plasticized. They measure 60cm by 80cm. The cost for hiring 30 Panels is £60 plus postage and packing.

  • Notes to accompany the Exhibition

    Mike Southern has made this excellent Exhibition leaflet (incorporating Anna Johnstone's Exhibition notes- see below). This Exhibition leaflet is slightly adjusted by ukmiracles.com because we lend a slightly different set of Panels.

  • Notes on Saint Carlo Acutis' International Exhibition of Eucharistic Miracles

    by Anna Johnstone, Governess (2015-2018) to Carlo’s younger brother and sister. www.ukmiracles.com

    In a sense the Exhibition speaks for itself and invites a personal exploration… but if, aswas my experience, you’re not quite sure where to begin, here are a fewpointers.

    The Science

    Start with Lanciano x 2, 750 AD

    This was the Eucharistic miracle that Carlo stumbled upon when he was 11, in 2002. Carlo wasamazed to discover that there were such things as Eucharistic Miracles.

    Professor Linoli conducted scientific tests on the Lanciano miracle in the 1970s. Amongst other findings, he reported that the sample was blood type AB and that the tissue was from a muscle in the human heart, the myocardium muscle.

    Buenos Aires x 3, 1990s

    The eminent pathologist, Professor Zugibe, was asked to blind test a sample from thesemiracles. He became concerned because, in addition to the above results, hefound white blood cells and evidence that the person from whom the sample was takenhad been tortured. In that white bloodcells die within 15 minutes of leaving the body, he was very concerned aboutthe person from whom the sample had been taken. He was amazed to be told thathe had been given a sample from the Blessed Sacrament.

    Sokolka x 3, 2008

    Here you can see a picture of bread turning into flesh. This can be seen to be happening even at the molecular level. Not even the scientists of NASA could reproduce this effect.

    The Spirituality

    What has been particularly striking, in bringing this Exhibition to new audiences, ishow affirming it is for the faith of those who already believe in the Real Presence. Speaking personally, this Exhibition has really brought alive, for me, our devotion to the Sacred Heart. I had no ideathat there had been so many Eucharistic miracles throughout the world, or thatthe tissue was always from the heart. I have also been really touched by Carlo’s Johannine spirituality. Carlo emphasized that we are all invited to become the ‘Beloved Disciple.’ Carlo said that when we pray before the Blessed Sacrament we are like John, restingour head on Jesus’ heart. And when we go to Mass, we are like John at the foot of the cross.

    Types of Miracles

    The miracles fall into several categories

    1. Where a Priest is struggling to believe in the reality of Jesus truly present in the Blessed Sacrament.

    2. Where there has been a simple accident – a host has been dropped for example.

    3. Where someone has set out to commit some kind of sacrilege. Please do see Santorem!

    4. Where there are other mysterious phenomena associated with the Sacrament – such as light pouring out or‘floating’ hosts. Please see St Clare of Assisi.

    5. And then of course there are examples of Saints being sustained solely on the Blessed Sacrament.

    The Theology

    The greatest miracle happens at every Mass, when the ‘substance’ changes into the body,blood, soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. (tran - substance - iation. 'Transubstantiation.')

    The miracles in this Exhibition, which concern the ‘accidents’ – that is the bread and wine, turning into flesh andblood – should be approached as wonderful signs from God, rather than somethingthat is more extraordinary than transubstantiation itself. These are signs to help our faith.

    Saint Carlo Acutis

    At the age of just 7 Carlo decided to go to Mass every day, pray the Rosary every day andspend time in Eucharistic Adoration. By the age of 11, Carlo was a catechist. Having discovered the Eucharistic Miracle of Lanciano, Carlo wanted to make Eucharistic miracles widely known and he decided to make a website. Hisparents helped him with the research, but the website was entirely hisdesign. (The Vatican are considering making Carlo a Patron Saint of the internet). The project took 3 years. In October 2006 Carlo became ill with what seemed to be a virus, but which was in fact fulminant leukemia. Carlo died just overa week later, on October 12 2006. His Exhibition rapidly spread throughout the world. Carlo was Beatified in Assisi in 2020 and will be canonized in Rome on 7th September 2025.

    For full information about Carlo’s Exhibition, please visit his original website.

    www.miracolieucaristici.org

  • First Class Relic

    Ex Capillis - Hair - with wax seal and certificate of authenticty

    Gifted to Anna Johnstone by the family of Saint Carlo Acutis, with approval from her Diocesan Bishop

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    Can this Relic visit your Parish or School?

    Anna would be delighted to bring this relic to your Parish or School.

    Please send an enquiry to admin@ukmiracles.com and we can look at dates and feasability.

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    Certificate

    Signed by the Postulator, Nicola Gori

  • Creating a Mission

    'Do you want to treat the Exhibition as a standalone event? Do you want to create a Saint Carlo Acutis mission around it? Do you want to go a step further and create a whole Eucharistic mission around it? Without a doubt my heart has always been in the last option. I was able to realise this by creating a 4 week Eucharistic mission, in my then home Parish of St Joseph's, Thame, in 2017. We were able to realise 60 hours of Adoration a week for the 4 weeks. We achieved this purely by early prayer and planning, and stepping out in faith. I hope, in the future, as the Community of the Transfiguration, of Saint Carlo Acutis, develops, to be able to help create more of these missions. For now, I offer, below, some thoughts and ideas, and am happy to talk it through with you at your early planning stage. I think that there is nothing to stop one parishioner, provided they have the blessing of their Parish Priest, creating a very in depth mission, for which the Exhibition would be just one element. I think that you need about a year to pray in, and plan, an in depth Eucharistic mission.'

    Anna Johnstone

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    Gathering a Team

    The idea of a 4 week Eucharistic mission in Thame took root on the last day of the Parish's pilgrimage to Assisi.

    1. Begin praying about it and don't think small. The Holy Spirit wants to help you

    2. Create a Prayer Team. Advertise for a Prayer Team in the Newsletter. New People will come forward who don't usually get involved.

    3. Support the Prayer Team. Offer Masses for them.

    4. This prayer team will naturally create also an active team, later on.

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    Combining the Exhibition with Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and other devotions

    All you need to create an intense programme of Adoration during a Eucharistic mission is the backing of the Parish Priest and one parishioner who will

    1. Underwrite the prayer - ie agree to fill any gaps in the Adoration Rota

    2. Organise the Rota. This is not more complicated than mentioning it in the Newsletter and leaving sheets for people to volunteer an hour.

    What other devotions would you like to add? Rosary? Compline? Morning/Evening Prayer?

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    Showing DVDs or Youtubes

    There are many wonderful resources now to choose from.

    We continue to recommend this very moving film.

    Vatican Produced DVD on Venerable, Carlo Acutis, 'La mia autostrada per il Cielo.' 'My motorway to Heaven.'

    There is an English button on the DVD for English narration and subtitles.

    This is a wonderful 50 minute film. Highly recommended. See picture.

    To buy this, go to Amazon.co.uk and search for Carlo Acutis DVD. Top search result should be Carlo Acutis [DVD] (English subtitles), with a picture of the Spanish version. Moja autostrada do nieba.

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    Abide in Me Course

    4 session small group course on the Spirituality of Saint Carlo Acutis and his Exhibition of Eucharistic Miracles. This was designed by Anna Johnstone in 2017 and piloted in St Joseph's Thame. In 2024 it was updated. It has its own website.

    www.abideinmecourse.com

    This could be run during or as a lead up to the mission

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    Abide in Me Course Online

    St James the Great Parish, Orpington, will be the first Parish to run this 4 session course online.

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    Advertising & Publicity materials

    This was the wonderful poster produced by St George's Cathedral, Southwark.

    St James the Great, Orpington have also created an excellent design.

    We have recently been working on a template poster if you need help with this

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    Incorporating some days with Veneration of St Carlo's Relics

    Please see the First Class Relic section

    There are various different Relics of Saint Carlo Acutis now available for visits within the UK. We will try to provide more information about this in due course

  • Schools Visits

    Anna Johnstone worked as a Religious Studies teacher at Westminster Cathedral Prep School for 2 years, (on the basis of her Cambridge Theology degree), and she was an International Governess, (a teaching Nanny), for 10 years and is experienced in talking to children. She has been giving presentations about Saint Carlo Acutis to School children since 2017.

    Since 2024 Anna has been able to add a First Class Relic of Saint Carlo Acutis to her school package.

    Since the beginning of this work Anna has been developing the presentation 'Saint Carlo, my Friend in Heaven' which she delivers in an age appropriate way. She has two 'Saint Carlo, my Friend in Heaven' handouts; one for Primary and one for Secondary. She also brings simple Saint Carlo prayer cards for each child. She brings a few Panels of Saint Carlo's Exhibition to give students a visceral grasp of what Saint Carlo created.

    Anna is able to talk to a whole Assembly. However it can be very effective to speak within the classroom and to combine an interactive, age appropriate, presentation with the possibility for each child to venerate the Relic.

    Anna always tries to tailor her visits and is open to helping Schools mount the Exhibition and create a longer and more in depth encounter with Saint Carlo Acutis.

    Anna's Schools' work will be presented soon, separately, on the website www.SaintCarloAcutis.UK. The site will be launched in the coming months.

    If you are interested in a visit, please begin your enquiry by writing to admin@ukmiracles.com.

  • Press & Media

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    BBC Songs of Praise

    Interview with Aled Jones as part of the 'Modern Day Miracles' episode of BBC Songs of Praise. Being aired on Sunday 24th August 2025 at 13:15 on BBC1. The episode is available here: BBC Songs of Praise: Modern Day Miracles

    Here is a Facebook Preview of the episode featuring Anna Johnstone: BBC Songs of Praise Episode Preview

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    Youth Event, St George's Cathedral, Southwark

    Video from a Youth Event from St George's Cathedral, Southwark in June: https://www.facebook.com/reel/752025504163879

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    Portsmouth Catholic Diocese ENews

    Visit to St Joseph's Primary School in Aldershot: Article in the Portsmouth Catholic Diocese E-News:

    Portsmouth Diocese e-News Issue 476


  • Contact

    To Contact please write to Admin@UKmiracles.com

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    Anna Johnstone

    Founder, www.UKmiracles.com

    Foundress, walking forwards creating Community of the Transfiguration, of Saint Carlo Acutis

    Anna Johnstone is a British, Catholic convert and former Classical Singer. She read Theology at Cambridge and afterwards embarked on a journey of Music, Prayer and Theology, and professional Care and Governess work that has taken her all over the world.

    In 2015 she became the Governess for the siblings of Saint Carlo Acutis, a post she held for three years, in Assisi, and she remains a family friend. Anna was immediately enthralled by Saint Carlo's mission and began www.UKmiracles.com in 2017 whilst she was still based in Assisi.

    8 years later, all the strands of the last 35 years are coming together as she walks forwards, with the blessing of her Bishop, in founding the Community of the Transfiguration, of Saint Carlo Acutis.

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    Shania and Anna

    in the office

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    Shania Steele

    Freelance Executive Assistant

    to Anna Johnstone

    IT and Design Consultant

    for www.ukmiracles.com & www.communityofthetransfiguration.com

    Shania Steele was born and raised on the Isle of Wight and is very active in supporting the Catholic Community across the Island. Shania has a passion for IT and administration and has been administrating the Ventnor Carnival since 2012.

    Shania met Anna Johnstone during lockdown and became Anna's right hand for the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Zoom Rosary Group, administrating eight, 54 day Rosary Novenas. In 2024 Anna invited Shania to work for her. Shania Steele has been integral to raising the profile of UKmiracles; creating resources and responding to enquiries. In 2025 Shania is bringing her skills to bear across the whole of the growing mission of the Community of the Transfiguration, of Saint Carlo Acutis.

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