Italy Genazzano- A new photo of Leo XIV is represented by a mural representing the past Pope visit of our Good Lawyer Mother’s Shelter in honor of his prayers two days after his election as Pope.

However, the new pope remains the "father Bob" of a few Augustine friars, who are in the cathedral of a hilltop medieval village and the Augustinian community around the globe. When he was their global leader, seminary teacher or a brother who was used to black people, they knew Leo, tied with thick belts and big hats.

"With Father Robert, then it was Robert, we had to change our name, but Father Bob... we realized that this guy hadn't changed at all, it was him," said his 78-year-old Rev. Alberto Giovannetti.

He remembers a day in 2001 when he struggled with the responsibility of his new position, and when Prevost's responsibility comforted him.

“He gave me the courage to be calm, the less you feel, the more you fit it,’ that’s what it means,” Giovannetti said. “I think that’s what guides him now, and true humility doesn’t make you feel weak, but makes you feel not alone.”

It was a fraternal style of leadership that was crucial to St. Augustine, who inspired the order that has attracted interest since Leo received his first public blessing from St. Peter's Basilica.

"He firmly affirmed, 'I am Augustine's son, I am Augustine, and it makes us all proud. We feel like the friars of the Pope," said Rev. Pasquiel Comio, the principal of the Cathedral of St. Augustine in Rome.

Leo's former Pope Francis was a Jesuit named after the founder of the Franciscans. The Jesuit command was well known for its academic stellar power, while the Franciscan command attracted many people because of the down-to-earth charity of the order.

Augustine's order is a bit like a paradox - it is still modest when it was first organized in the mid-13th century, but its origin is one of the most influential thinkers in Christianity and Western culture.

Now, monks expect that "Bob's Father" will bring some of St. Augustine's spiritual trademarks to the wider church.

“Augustin’s spirituality is built on these words of St. Augustine – a heart, a soul directed at God, that is, an attitude toward unity,” Pastor Lizardo Estrada was a seminary student. “That’s why you can say four words to sum up – community, internality, charity and obedience.”

For the Augustines, the basis of a godly life is to seek truth with the help of scriptures and sacraments, to see it as the existence of God’s heart - “innerity” and then take this knowledge outward to help others.

“You can’t worship the Lord every day, pray every day, nor find God among the vulnerable, among the mean, among the fields, among the Amazon people,” said Estrada, secretary general of the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean. “You can’t know the God in your heart, have that knowledge and keep it the same.”

The order is certainly always on the road – part of St. Augustine’s lasting attraction is that he is a “seeker” who introduces the concept of introspection as a way of happiness. Born in Algeria today in the 4th century, he embraced his mother's Christian faith during his trip to Italy and continued to write some historical spiritual and philosophical papers.

Colleen Mitchell, a scholar at the Augustinian Institute of Villanova University, said his answers to perennial questions such as free will and expectations, true beliefs and heresy, and even solving problems of leadership, gender and sexual behavior continue to provide a basis for Western culture.

When both male and female monastic communities began to pay attention to him, St. Augustine wrote down the basics of the “rules” or charter, which was eventually assigned by the Pope to medieval hermits in Tuscany about eight centuries later, forming a single union.

Today, orders from about 3,000 monks are active in 50 countries, such as about 150,000 children in Villanova, Pennsylvania and Augustinian Schools.

They operate missions throughout Africa, develop in Asia, and host historic churches in Europe, including Santo Spirito in Florence - the young Michelangelo took the crucifix as a gift of thanks, as the monk allowed him to go to their hospital to study anatomy, which was once the anatomy.

"It is very important to find the truth because, as St. Augustine said, the truth is not yours or mine, but ours. We have to have a conversation to find the truth, once we find the truth, because we both want to follow the truth,"

Large, earthy complex is located in a spectacular colony surrounding St. Peter's Square. When Leo was declared Pope, the rejoicing friars crowded in the window.

A few days later, the Pope had a surprise lunch with them and a brother’s birthday celebration, showing that the attention to the fraternity was Augustine’s pride.

"He reassures you that he has a way of...even if he is a general in general, I always shocked me, and he always maintains his cardinal style and is now the pope."

He added that finding unity in diversity is another pillar that the Augustinians believe Leo will promote.

“Diversity among brothers – I think the Pope will work to make more and more people inside and outside the church, and we can recognize each other, not as dangerous, not as enemies, but as lovers, and make our lives richer and better,” Pedicino said.

Various friars found inspiration in the pope’s motto “Illo uno unum”, Latin for “In a Christ, we are one”, derived from St. Augustine’s preaching on Christian unity.

He went through a split era. A thousand years later, the former Augustinian Martin Luther went bankrupt with the Catholic Church and began the Protestant reform.

As the Catholic Church today also struggles with polarization, rebuilding the core unity centered on Jesus is a widely resonant message.

Moral says: “It’s not that we are better than anyone else, we are all the same, and when we have conversations we need to realize that we need to respect each other with great respect.” “I believe this is crucial to our mission – listening, respect and love. Pope Leo has this simplicity.”

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