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Hunt Valley parishioner recalls her former student – a future pope

By Susan McInerney, Catholic Review

Teachers often reflect on standout students – the brilliant minds, the star athletes, the unforgettable personalities. But very few can say one of their former students became pope.

Sue Strom can.

For three years, Strom taught French to a young Robert Francis Prevost – now Pope Leo XIV – at St. Augustine Seminary High School, then an Augustinian boarding school in Holland, Mich.

Even as a teenager, Prevost’s potential was unmistakable.

He was “extraordinarily intelligent” and a “very strong student,” said Strom, a parishioner of the Catholic Community of St. Francis Xavier in Hunt Valley FINISH READING HERE

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