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EWTN News @EWTNews - Perhaps many Catholics wonder who Pope Leo XIV’s favorite saint is. A Peruvian missionary priest who is a close friend and confidant of the pontiff said he knows the answer in this little-known devotion of the Holy Father, who used to pray to this saint on his knees in a small chapel near Chiclayo in northern Peru.
“St. Nicholas of Tolentine is, without a doubt, his favorite saint. He is the protector of his perpetual vows, his great devotion within Augustinian spirituality,” said Peruvian priest Father David Farfán Guerrero, whom the Holy Father met in 1985 in Chulucanas in the Piura district of the country.
Farfán, who has served as pastor of St. Turibius of Mogrovejo Parish for about 10 years, welcomed ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, to San Nicolás, a small settlement located outside of Chiclayo, specifically to the humble chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas of Tolentine, considered the first saint of the Order of St. Augustine and who lived in the 13th century.
“This place is very special in the life of His Holiness because this is where, as I often say, ‘he put his knees to the test.’ He had hardly arrived when he would go in and pray to the patron saint of his perpetual profession,” said the priest, a former missionary in Canada and the Philippines.
The then-Friar Robert Prevos professed his solemn (or perpetual) vows with the Augustinians on Aug. 29, 1981, taking this Italian mystic as his patron saint. Years later, his brothers in the order appointed Prevost prior general during the 2001 ordinary general chapter and renewed their trust in him for a second term in 2007.
Adopting a saint when making vows — also called “patron” or “intercessor” — is a common custom in some religious orders. It consists of choosing a saint whose life serves as an example and spiritual aid to better live one’s devotion to God and fulfill one’s commitments.
According to Farfán, the then-Bishop Prevost, who served as bishop of the Diocese of Chiclayo from 2015 to 2023, “never imagined that, in Chiclayo, within the diocese, he would find a chapel and a village dedicated precisely to this saint.”
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/264215/who-is-the-patron-saint-of-pope-leo-xiv-s-final-vows
https://x.com/EWTNews/status/1924917164278255732
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https://x.com/FBI/status/1924873169967440148
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