Robert Prevost entered the novitiate of the Order of Saint Augustine, Province of Our Lady of Good Counsel, in St. Louis on Sept. 1, 1977. The order’s house of novitiate was based at Immaculate Conception Parish. After completing the one-year novitiate, he moved to Chicago, where he earned a master’s of divinity degree from the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago in 1981, professed solemn vows on Aug. 29, 1981, and was ordained a priest on June 19, 1982.
Barbara Herrmann, 92, was a parishioner at Immaculate Conception Parish where she met the future Pope Leo XIV. Herrmann remembers Prevost “as the quiet person…he was, what you see, a very contemplative person.”
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