There was one thing Francesca Scorsese wasn’t comfortable doing when she directed an episode for her father’s Fox Nation series “ Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints ” about Saint Carlo Acutis.

Acutis, an Italian teen known for being a devout Catholic and promoting the religion on the internet, was only 15 when he died of leukemia in 2006. Known as the first millennial saint, he was canonized in 2015.

Francesca was given the option of filming the body of Acutis, which is entombed and on display in a glass coffin in Assisi, Italy. “It was slightly disturbing because it’s a young boy. They put this silicone mask over him, and he looks perfectly preserved,” she tells me. “It looks like a young boy sleeping, like one of my friends, and he’s in a tracksuit and sneakers. … There was a

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