“When we were little, I played with false weapons or arches and arrows. Rob he played the priest. »Fate of Leon XIV was therefore all traced. Louis Prevost, One of the brothers of the new pope Elected this Thursday, May 8, testified to the BBC after this unexpected election of the American cardinal Robert Francis Prevost.
Louis, 73, remembers perfectly that he found his brother “boring” when they were children and that he preferred to play the priest by giving communion to his friends. “We were teasing him by saying to him: You’re going to finish Pope! »Just after finishing the equivalent of the college in the United States, Whoever has become Pope Leo XIV entered the seminar.
“Nothing will ever be the same”
In front of his television Thursday, the septuagenarian who currently lives in Florida, the United States, did not return when he heard the name of his brother : “We were all there to say to ourselves: Oh my God is Rob! ». Louis Prevost remembers then thought: “Nothing will ever be the same, how are we going to do?” Before bursting with joy, he told the BBC.
“My brother is Pope. Hey then! “, He also told the New York Times. “I have the impression that yesterday I played with him on the stairs of the house,” he was surprised. If the two men spoke on the phone a few days before the start of the conclave, Louis Prevost does not yet know when he can join his little brother again: “I don’t know if we can just take his phone and call the pope… It is like calling the president, “he said before adding not without humor that he did not expect” that a papamobile arrives in front of his door “.
