Even as a child, the new Pope Leo XIV wanted to become a priest in the words of one of his two brothers. “He knew it right away. I don’t think he once questioned it,” said John Prevost. “I don’t think he ever thought of something else.”
According to ‘fourth Little Robert Prevost’ not only the ‘Beurs’ on the ironing board for the home, which served as an altar, he reports to the TV station ‘ABC’. “He knew all the prayers by heart, in English and Latin.”
Already in the first class primary school, a neighbor also predicted his brother that he would become the first American pope. On Tuesday, a day before the 133 cardinals in Rome went to the conclave, he told his brother Robert the same. Cardinal Prevost described this as “nonsense”: “You don’t choose an American pope,” quoted him. “He just didn’t believe it or didn’t want to believe it.”
John Prevost expects his brother in the footsteps of the late Pope Francis and will work for the disadvantaged and poor. Many things connected the new Pope Leo XIV to his predecessor.
John Prevost also believes that his brother will continue the course of Pope Francis, especially in the field of social justice, pastoral care at the edges of society and the strengthening of the poor. “He cares about people, their souls, around their daily lives. I am sure that he will not lose a prospect of the excluded and forgotten.”
Religious
Leo XIV comes from a religious family with European roots and has two older brothers: Louis Martín and John Joseph. His mother Mildred Martínez (1912-1990), whose ancestors came from Spain, worked as a librarian. Two of her sisters were religious. The father Louis Marius Prevost, who died in 1997, had French-Italian roots and was the school director and catechet.
Source: Krone
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