Photos: Pope Francis blesses little Nigerian boy who went missing while on holiday with his parents in Rome

A little Nigerian boy, Thierry Ekechi, went missing while vacationing with his parents at the Basilica in the Vatican City, in Rome, Italy recently. His parents later found him and went to the Vatican with him last Wednesday where Pope Francis asked that they bring the little boy for blessing. The little boy's father, Theodore Okwu Ejike Ekechi, who shared the photos on Facebook, wrote
The Pontiff, Thierry Ekechi and Blessing of the Pope......
To God be the Glory!
Thierry the Blessed Child.......
Dr TOE Ekechi wrote:
It was like a fairy tale or a providential coincidence last Wednesday, when His Holliness, oblivious of our earlier trauma of missing and later finding our son, beckoned on little Thierry Okenze Aguguom TOE-EKECHI for blessing when we were received in General Audience at the Pope Paul VI Hall, Vatican City. He prayed & blessed all of us...
As devout Catholics we celebrate this most significant encounter as MOMENTOUS & SANCTIFYING...