Few people have known Pope Leo for as long as those who attended St. Augustine Seminary High School with him.

Seminary schoolmate Father Thomas Becket Franks saw the signs that Robert Prevost was special more than five decades ago.

Walking in to the St. Procopious Abbey in Lisle, Illinois, Father Thomas “Becket” Franks is – in some ways – walking down memory lane.

Sifting through his yearbooks from St. Augustine Seminary High School in Holland, Michigan, he has found photos of his most famous schoolmate: Robert Prevost, the man who would become Pope Leo XIV.

“Probably the most humble person I’ve ever met and yet at the same time, the most helpful person,” he said.

Father Becket, as he’s known in the abbey, was a sophomore when Prevost arrived in the St. Augustine dorms as a freshman i

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