{"id":7758,"date":"2026-11-13T01:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T16:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/?p=7758"},"modified":"2026-11-13T01:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T16:17:06","slug":"in-a-first-for-belarus-archbishop-kondrusiewicz-blesses-an-ai-assisted-image-of-st-carlo-acutis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ja\/2026\/11\/13\/in-a-first-for-belarus-archbishop-kondrusiewicz-blesses-an-ai-assisted-image-of-st-carlo-acutis\/","title":{"rendered":"In a First for Belarus, Archbishop Kondrusiewicz Blesses an AI-Assisted Image of St Carlo Acutis"},"content":{"rendered":"<section lang=\"ja\" class=\"enj-ja-summary\">\n<h2>\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u8981\u7d04<\/h2>\n<p>2026\u5e7410\u670811\u65e5\u3001\u30d9\u30e9\u30eb\u30fc\u30b7\u30fb\u30f4\u30a3\u30c6\u30d7\u30b9\u30af\u5dde\u30ce\u30f4\u30a9\u30eb\u30b3\u30e0\u30ea\u306e\u8056\u30de\u30b0\u30c0\u30e9\u306e\u30de\u30ea\u30a2\u6559\u4f1a\u3067\u3001\u30df\u30f3\u30b9\u30af\u30fb\u30e2\u30ae\u30ea\u30e7\u30d5\u540d\u8a89\u5927\u53f8\u6559\u30bf\u30c7\u30a6\u30b7\u30e5\u30fb\u30b3\u30f3\u30c9\u30eb\u30b7\u30a7\u30f4\u30a3\u30c1\u5927\u53f8\u6559\u304c\u3001AI\u306e\u52a9\u3051\u3092\u501f\u308a\u3066\u5236\u4f5c\u3055\u308c\u305f\u8056\u30ab\u30eb\u30ed\u30fb\u30a2\u30af\u30c6\u30a3\u30b9\u306e\u8056\u753b\u3092\u795d\u798f\u3057\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002\u5730\u5143\u306e\u6559\u4f1a\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2\u306b\u3088\u308b\u3068\u3001AI\u3092\u7528\u3044\u3066\u5236\u4f5c\u3055\u308c\u305f\u8056\u753b\u306e\u795d\u798f\u306f\u30d9\u30e9\u30eb\u30fc\u30b7\u3067\u521d\u3081\u3066\u3067\u3059\u3002\u8056\u753b\uff08140\u00d7290\u30bb\u30f3\u30c1\uff09\u306f\u5074\u796d\u58c7\u306b\u7f6e\u304b\u308c\u3001\u30ce\u30fc\u30c8\u30d1\u30bd\u30b3\u30f3\u3001\u30ed\u30b6\u30ea\u30aa\u3001\u5929\u3078\u7d9a\u304f\u300c\u9ad8\u901f\u9053\u8def\u300d\u306a\u3069\u304c\u63cf\u304b\u308c\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3002\u5236\u4f5c\u8005\u306f\u3001AI\u306f\u4e0b\u7d75\u3084\u914d\u7f6e\u306e\u88dc\u52a9\u306b\u4f7f\u3063\u305f\u3060\u3051\u3067\u4f5c\u696d\u306e5\u301c10\uff05\u7a0b\u5ea6\u306b\u3059\u304e\u305a\u3001\u5b8c\u6210\u307e\u3067\u7d041\u5e74\u304b\u304b\u3063\u305f\u3068\u8a9e\u3063\u3066\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3002\u5927\u53f8\u6559\u306f\u8aac\u6559\u3067\u3001\u3053\u306e\u8056\u753b\u304c\u30a4\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u3092\u901a\u3057\u3066\u8056\u6027\u3078\u5c0e\u304f\u795e\u306e\u771f\u7406\u3092\u898b\u3044\u3060\u3059\u52a9\u3051\u3068\u306a\u308b\u3088\u3046\u9858\u3044\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>On Sunday, 11 October 2026, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, Archbishop Emeritus of Minsk-Mohilev, blessed a new image of St Carlo Acutis at the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Novolukoml, in Belarus\u2019s Vitebsk region. Belarusian Catholic media reported that it is the first image made with the help of artificial intelligence to be blessed in Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>The parish priest, Father Mikalaj Lipski, announced during an online broadcast of Mass that the image had been specially created with AI assistance. According to <em>Katalicki Viesnik<\/em> (catholicnews.by), the archbishop visited the parish that day to celebrate its patronal feast, which he had been unable to attend in July for health reasons. During the same visit he also blessed a chapel of St Francis of Assisi and a parish garden.<\/p>\n<p>The canvas, styled as a painting and measuring 140 \u00d7 290 cm, stands at a side altar and is designed to open and close over the image of the parish\u2019s patron, St Mary Magdalene. It shows the young saint holding a laptop, a sign of his digital evangelisation, and a rosary, recalling his devotion to Our Lady. A golden sun on his chest points to his conviction that the Eucharist was his \u201chighway to heaven\u201d, and a spiral staircase rising behind him becomes a road leading upward.<\/p>\n<p>The image was produced by a prompt engineer, Dzmitry Kulpanovich, working with a designer and a photographer. Kulpanovich told <em>The European Correspondent<\/em> that AI was used mainly for rough sketches and arranging elements, accounting for only about 5\u201310% of the work, and that the project took a year. Some faithful have asked online whether an AI-assisted image can be called an icon.<\/p>\n<p>In his homily, Archbishop Kondrusiewicz said people now enter the world through the internet, and expressed the hope that the image of St Carlo would help them find there the truth of God that leads to holiness. Carlo Acutis, who catalogued Eucharistic miracles online and died aged 15 in 2006, was canonised by Pope Leo XIV in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note from Evangelii Network Japan: St Carlo Acutis is a patron for many who work in digital ministry. This story raises a question close to our own work on AI: how human authorship, prayer and intention remain at the heart of sacred art when new tools are used.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicnews.by\/u-novalukomli-arcybiskup-tadjevush-kandrusevich-asvjaci-kaplicu-svjatoga-francishka-asizskaga-z-parafijalnym-sadam-i-abraz-svjatoga-karla-akucisa-stvorany-pry-dapamoze-shtuchnaga-intjelektu\/\">Katalicki Viesnik (catholicnews.by): Archbishop Kondrusiewicz blesses St Francis chapel and AI-assisted image of St Carlo Acutis in Novolukoml (Belarusian)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katolik.life\/bel\/news\/tserkov\/item\/6108-upershynyu-belarusi-tsi-svetse-asvyatsili-abraz-stvorany-shtuchnym-intelektam.html\">Katolik.life: First in Belarus, an image created with AI blessed (Belarusian)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/belarus2020.churchby.info\/u-belarusi-upershynyu-asvyaczili-abraz-stvorany-z-dapamogaj-shi\/\">Church and the political crisis in Belarus (churchby.info): image created with AI blessed for the first time in Belarus (Belarusian)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/europeancorrespondent.com\/en\/r\/in-the-name-of-the-father-the-son-and-ai\">The European Correspondent: In the name of the father, the son, and AI (2 November 2026)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u8981\u7d04 2026\u5e7410\u670811\u65e5\u3001\u30d9\u30e9\u30eb\u30fc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","nfd_image_url":"","nfd_onboarding_generated":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trending-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7759,"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758\/revisions\/7759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}