The day after the White Smoking is not an ordinary day at the San Agustín school, almost in the shadow of the colossal steel cover of the Bernabéu. It is the time of recess and towards the street of Father Damián the students parade … Baccalaureate to take a break in full end of course. They look with a certain laziness to the journalists who occupy the lobby and pass by, precisely when the director, Ildefonso Triguerosremember that, fifteen years ago, Cardinal Robert F. Prevost Martínez, as a prior general of the Order of San Agustín (from 2001 to 2013) visited them on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the center. It is inevitable to think that many of these kids, now more concerned about Evau than for anything else, crossed in some corridor with Pope Leo XIV.
«During his time at school, he called us all by our name. Everything seemed good, everything was good. Are we going to see the children in children? Come on! Are we going to know the Teachers Room? Well, to the teacher’s room. We are going here, we go there … naturally, with a lot of peace of mind, without hurry, ”recalls Father Ildefonso. «Robert, Roberto … we call him that, but we have to get used to the name of Leo XIV. He is not a talkative person, but listens to everyone with maximum attention. As we say in Palencia, it is very good people, ”explains Father Ildefonso even with the adrenaline of having lived a memorable afternoon, that of May 8, the day the Augustinians celebrated Our Lady of Grace, one of the warnings of the Order.
«Being Augustine is being a person open to dialogue, fraternity, friendship. One of our values is to live in community, something that is as difficult as living as a family. So you must have tolerance, know how to listen, respect and look for the truth together. And, above all, always be moving. Being Augustine prints character ».
About The character of Leo XIVif we take as a reference that of Francisco, his predecessor in the Headquarters of the Catholic Church, Father Ildefonso points out that the new Pontiff “is more reflective than Francisco was, who knew how to tear a smile immediately because it was, say, very plastic. That of ‘You have to smell like sheep’ … on Wednesday, Father Roberto, forgiveness, Leo XIV, gave three very clear messages: peace, mission and establish bridges ».
The strength of work
One of the people who best know the successor of Pedro, Domingo Amigo, president of the Federation of Provinces of the Order of San Agustín de España, abounds in that way of being, prudent and reflexive, of Leo XIV. «I have been with him in many to cause, between 2001 and 2013, because before we had the Augustinian four provincials and now we have one. I have also had meetings in Rome and other cities in Europe. His intellectual career and in the bosom of the Church is impressive. He has managed to combine all pastoral and curia tasks, starting from Chicago and through his mission in Peru. It is simple, very friendly, very dialogue, helpful, prudent and hardworking. A great worker ». When we ask Father Domingo for somewhere that Leo XIV likes it in a special way in Spain, after so many visits to our country, he does not doubt it: “He likes Seville very much.”
Argimiro Martín Fuertes (left) and Ildefonso Trigueros, director of the school
In this ‘detail’ about the Pope’s queresnces coincides TORgimiro Martínez FuertesPrior of the Community of the College of San Agustín, in Father Damián. «I have met him throughout his visits to Madrid and in three provincial chapters, which last five or six days. And I know that Seville loves him. I don’t know if because of that character that Andalusians have so outgoing, very different from yours … it may be attracted, because he is a bit shy. As documented, as ABC collects in these pages, Prevost visited the Spanish capital in April 2007.
Nervous hours
Father Argimiro explains that «when the election was communicated I felt immense joy. The news caught me in the car. In the community we were a little nervous because his name already came out in some papers. ‘And if Roberto comes out, how do we celebrate it?’ And, looked, came out and gave us some very clear and significant messages, but in a very, very soft way. He began by saying that peace is with all of you ‘. It does not impose. He offers, makes available. I do not know if they realized, but I had it written by hand in some papers, that I say that I would write them while putting the clothes, in that hour that average between the white smoking and the exit to the balcony … In the end, we celebrated it in the chapel, praying a prayer for him and singing to the Virgin ». And he concludes: “In coexistence I can tell you that he is a man of great friendship.”
Premost visit to San Agustín College in 2010
One of those signs of loyalty and trust was offered Prevost to the Agustino Ángel Camino priest, with whom he has locked a personal friendship over the years. As he told Ángel Expósito, in the Cope chain, hours before the conclave the Holy Father sent him a message by WhatsApp at 23:48 hours: “Angel, all in the hands of God,” he wrote. I was on the eve of entering the story.
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