Socorro Cassaro holds up a picture of Augustinian Fr. Robert Prevost with a group of young people at Our Lady of Montserrat Parish in Trujillo, Peru. Prevost, the future Pope Leo XIV, served as parochial administrator of the parish from 1992 to 1999. (NCR photo/Justin McLellan)

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