From the London baptism to the first millennial saint

A boy born in London became the first millennial saint, at the ceremony imbued with an ancient ritual in which Pope Leo was ruled on Sunday.

In his short life, Carl Akutis created web -residues that documented “miracles” as a means of distributing Catholic teaching, which led to the nickname that he influenced.

His canonization was supposed to take place in late April, but after Pope Francis’ death was postponed.

More than a million people estimated the pilgrimage to the Italian hill of Assisi, where Carl’s body lies in the wax.

But there is another site for a pilgrimage associated with Charles Akutis, which is observed by the increase in visitors, because it was announced that it should be made Holy – the Church of the Mother of God of Dolurs in London.

The font at the back of the Roman Catholic Church in Chelsea was where Charles was baptized as a child in 1991.

In the direction of the church, the old coat of confession was transformed into a shrine. In it, the owner of the relic contains the only thread of Carl hair.

“His family was in finances, and they worked very temporarily in London,” says Father Paul Addison, a monk in the church.

“Although they did not use the church, they decided to come and ask the child to be baptized. Thus, Carl had a flash, a very big flash, in the life of the parish community,” he says.

Carl was not yet six months old when his parents moved back to the Italian home, and spent the rest of his life in Milan.

There he was known for the love of technology and is said to play with pleasure in the video game.

While some who knew that Carl Akutis said he seems particularly pious, in his teens he created a web -resite – the pages of which are now decorated in Chelsea – which had miracles.

But he died of leukemia at the age of 15.

In the years after the death of Carl’s mother, Antony Salzan, she visited churches around the world to defend him so that he would be holy.

As part of this process, it was necessary to prove that her son was performing “miracles”.

“He made the first miracle the day of the funeral,” says Carl’s mother.

“A woman with breast cancer prayed (for) Carl, and she had to start chemotherapy, and cancer disappeared completely,” she explains.

Pope Francis attributed two miracles from Charles Akutis, and so the test was passed, and on April 27 he was to make the saint.

But Pope Francis died during the previous week.

Some followers who traveled to Rome on the canonization were among tens of thousands of mourning at the funeral of the deceased pantiff – Diego Sargissians, a young Catholic from London, was one of them.

He says he feels connected to Carl Akutis and excitedly canonization.

“He played in the Super Mario video game on the old Nintendo consoles, and I always loved video games,” says Mr. Sargissians.

“What you can come up with as the saint does the same (like you) in jeans, it feels much closer than what other saints felt in the past,” he says.

Approval in order for someone to become holy may take decades or even centuries, but it makes sense that the Vatican is rapidly monitored by Carl Akutis canonization as a means of infection and inspiring faith in the youth.

The Catholic Church will hope that the event will do that on Sunday.