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- Vatican Media will release the documentary León de Perú on June 20, 2025, tracing Robert Francis Prevost's missionary work in Peru.
- The documentary covers Prevost's eight-year leadership as bishop in the northern Peruvian city of Chiclayo, which has a population of approximately 600,000 people.
- The film features scenes of Prevost traveling on horseback to meet highland villagers, standing alongside flood survivors, and performing a blessing for oxygen machines amid the Covid-19 crisis.
- The premiere will be at 5:00 PM Rome time on the Vatican News YouTube channel, with versions in Spanish, Italian, and English.
- The documentary aims to highlight Prevost's pastoral work amid Peru's political crisis, poverty, and drug-related crime, reflecting his local and global impact.
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From Peru to the Vatican, the rise of 'Monseñor Roberto de Chiclayo,' now Leo XIV
Francis's successor at the Vatican lived for many years in the South American country. Le Monde traveled to the city of Chiclayo to meet with several people who remember the days when he was still known as Robert Prevost.
The YouTube channel of Vatican News officially premiered this Friday an audiovisual that records the journey of the then missionary Robert Francis Prevost (today, Pope Leo XIV) through Peruvian territory. READ ALSO Who is Robert Prevost, the new Pope of the Catholic Church The audiovisual, made by Salvatore Cernuzio, Felipe Herrera-Espaliat and Jaime Vizcaíno Haro, is a sample that gathers the work of who for years was simply “Father Roberto”, n…
On Friday, June 20, the Vatican premiered a documentary about the life of Pope Leo XIV in Peru, where he exercised his religious mission for almost four decades, before assuming the pontificate, Vatican News reported on its official website.The production, titled León de Perú, is available in Spanish, English and Italian. The feature film covers different locations in the Andean country that marked the pastoral and social path of the now pontiff…
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