Pope Leo XIV will preside on Monday the opening mass of the 188th General Chapter of the Order of San Agustín, which will be held in Rome and will choose the new general of the religious family to which the Holy Father belongs.
The Eucharist of opening the works will be in the Basilica of San Agustín, in Campo Marzio, at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, September 1, on the anniversary of Pope Leo XIV’s entry to the novitiate, an event that took place in 1977.
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Recently, Pope Leo XIV received the Medal of San Agustín, granted by the Augustinian province of San Tomás de Villanueva (United States), the maximum award that the order grants to those who embody the spirit and teachings of St. Augustine, living with a deep commitment to truth, unity and charity.
In a video store transmitted on August 28, Fiesta de San Agustín, the Holy Father deeply thanked the gesture and said: “Being recognized as Augustine is an honor that I keep very close to the heart. Much of what I am I owe it to the spirit and the teachings of St. Augustine.”
The General Chapter will be developed in the Pontifical Patristical Institute Augustinianum and will feature a hundred Augustinian religious.
The works will last until September 18. There are 73 delegates, from 46 countries, who will be entitled to vote in the election of the general, representing the 2341 Augustinians present in the 41 constituencies of the order in the world.
The election will determine the 98th Prior General, after 12 years of Government of Fr. Alejandro Moral, who has completed his second cycle at the head of the Order.
Those who wish to follow the transmission of the opening mass can do it live through Radio Vaticano-Vatican News, with comments in Italian, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Polish.
It can also be followed in audio streaming in the corresponding linguistic pages of Vatican News and on video on the same portal and in the corresponding pages of Facebook y YouTube.
Julieta Villar
I am a journalist, a graduate in Communication from the National University of La Matanza in Argentina. I have work experience in non -governmental organizations. Since 2016 I dedicate myself to Catholic journalism, first in the Argentine Catholic Information Agency (AICA) and, since 2022, as a correspondent for ACI Press for Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Bolivia.