By TomL
Robert Francis Prevost, 69, has become the 267th occupant of the throne of St Peter and he will be known as Leo XIV.
He Grew up as a peruvian but born in Chicago to a Spanish and Franco Italian parents. He served as a alter boy and was ordained in 1982.
He taught for years in as a local parish pastor at a seminary in Trujillo in North Western Peru. He made many trips to the US and serve as a priest and a prior in Chicago. It sounds to me like he was torn between work and building relationships in both the US and Peru.
He was well known and well liked and the first American born to become Pope. Pope Leo XIV lays out vision of papacy and identifies AI as a main challenge for humanity.
Now to add a twist to this, my wife was going through some things her father left. There was two small hard back books, kind of tattered, one was called “The History of the Bible” by the Benziger Brothers. Copy righted 1889 by the Benziger Brothers. She found the book that had been put away for 22 years. It was wrapped in brown paper bag material to keep it nice. Now while I’m watching on TV during the time the Pope was being named, she opened this book the first thing she see’s is a letter inside front from the Pope Leo XIII. The book comes from over 100 years ago.
Her father left atwo books among other things. There was two books McGuffey’s Sixth Electric Reader Revised edition printed by American Book Company. Copy right 1879 and the “History of the Bible.” Printed by the Benizer Brothers copy write 1881.
Pope Leo XIII, born Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci, Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci was the 257th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, serving from 1878 to his death in 1903. Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci was the sixth child of a family of the lower nobility.
Pope Leo P. P. XIII
The history was Vincenzo Gioacchino Pecci was the sixth child of a family of the lower nobility. After his early education in Viterbo and Rome, he completed his studies at the Accademia dei Nobili Ecclesiastici (Academy of Noble Ecclesiastics) in Rome. In 1837 he was ordained a priest and entered the diplomatic service of the Papal States. His superiors immediately appreciated his qualities: flexibility and lucidity and great
He was known for his social teachings and his efforts to address the challenges of industrialization and modernization.
He wrote a letter that was printed in a book called the history of the bible Thanking the the book. The letter said.…
We have received with thanks of devotion, which Benziger Brothers, publishers, have sent us through the Bishop of Basil, and we give our Apostolic Benediction to them and to their labors that these may always lend the good of religion.
Signed
Pope Leo P. P. XIII
She opened the book during the time this Pope Leo XIV was being chosen.What a coincidence! Neither one of us are catholic but we find the book and interesting piece of history to have from her father. I find the signature interesting with the P. P. in the signature???
