From London’s baptism to the first millennium

A Born in London became the first Millennium saint, at a concert in ancient rituals headed by Pope Liu on Sunday.

In his short life, Carlo Akotis created web sites documenting “miracles” as a way to spread Catholic education, which led some to a title for him, God’s influence.

He was to be sanctified in late April, but was postponed after the death of Pope Francis.

It is estimated that more than a million people have pilgrimage to the Italian town of Assisi at the top of the hill, where Carlo, preserved in wax.

But there is another site for the pilgrimage associated with Actus, which has increased visitors because it was announced that it will become a saint – the Church of the Lady of Dols in London.

The line was in the back of the Roman Catholic Church in the Chelsea region, where Carlo was baptized as a child in 1991.

Besides the church, the old recognition booth was converted into a shrine. In it, a residue holder has one strand of Carlo’s hair.

“His family was financing and they were temporarily working in London,” says Father Paul Edison, a monk in the church.

“Although they did not use the church a lot, they decided to come and ask for the baptism of the child. So Carlo was a flash, very big, in the life of the parish community,” he says.

Carlo was not six months old even when his parents returned to their homeland in Italy, and spent the rest of his life in Milan.

There, he was known for the love of technology and is said to have enjoyed playing video game.

While some who knew Carlo Akotis say he does not seem to be particularly religious, when he was a teenager who created a website – his pages were now framing in the church in Chelsea – where miracles were documented.

But he died of only 15 years of leukemia.

In the years after his death, Carlo’s mother, Antonia Salzano, visited the churches all over the world to defend him to be a saint.

As part of this process, it had to be proven that her son had performed “miracles.”

“The first miracle, he did the funeral day,” says Carlo’s mother.

“A woman with breast cancer prayed (for) Carlo and was forced to start chemotherapy and completely disappeared,” she explained.

Pope Francis attributed two miracles to Carlo Akotis, and thus the test was passed and was scheduled to be a saint on April 27.

But Pope Francis died during the previous week.

Some of the followers who traveled to Rome for evaluation instead found themselves among tens of thousands of mourners at the late Pontef funeral – Diego Sarkissian, a young man from London, one of them.

He says he feels connected to Carlo Akotis and is excited by his sanctification.

“He used to play SUPER Mario on the old Nintends, and I always loved video games,” says Mr. Sarkissian.

He says: “The fact that you can think about a saint who does the same things (like you), and wearing jeans, he feels much closer to what other saints in the past felt.”

Approval of someone can become a saint to take decades or even centuries, but there is a feeling that Carlo Akotis’s quick sanctification in the Vatican as a way to stimulate faith and inspiration for young people.

The Catholic Church hopes that Sunday events will do so.