Musical Pontifex – Pope Leo surprised with his singing skills

Leo Vix. Led the liturgical songs on Sunday with a clear voice. Tens of thousands of people were in the Vatican for St. Peter’s Basilica to be part of the first Sunday mass of the new Pope. Leo Vix. Song down from the balcony.

He was particularly impressed by his beautiful Timbre, ie the special Timbre of his voice. The Robert Francis Prevost, chosen Pope, knows the tradition of liturgical singing from his time very well in the Order of Augustin.

Here you can see a video in which Pope Leo Vix. sings:

Some videos from his years in Peru also show that the pope likes to sing. During a recording from 2014, the former bishop of the Peruvian diocese of Chiclayo was shown while singing the Christmas song “Feliz Navidad” accompanied by a guitarist.

Here you can see the former bishop singing in 2014:

Unlike his singing successor, Pope Francis had almost never sung in his pontificate. On the one hand, this was due to the origin of the Jesuit order, which is traditionally not great importance for singing the church. On the other hand, the Argentinian was difficult to sing because of a weakness of the lungs.

Pope candidate sang religious song
As a singing cardinal, the Filipino purple wearer Luis Tagle also noticed in the time before the youngest conclave. A video appeared where the Cardinal from Manila sings the religious song “Imagine” by John Lennon at a youth service.

Here you can see a video that shows Luis Tagle while singing:

The excerpt was viral and even brought tagle criticized with his own followers. Tagle was considered one of the favorites in the pope election. The conclave came to an end a week ago with the choice of Robert Prevost to the 267th Pontifex.