“Maria, where are we in Robert’s chasuble? » The question asked to one of the embroiderers in the workshop came out of Filippo Sorcinelli’s mouth as if he was talking about an old friend. The designer actually refers to former cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, better known today as Leo XIV.
“With Pope Leo XIV, we have known each other for thirty years. We met in 1995, in the town of Tolentino, not far from my native village. At that time I was playing as an organist in churches and he was an Augustinian monk in the area. (Robert Francis Prevost joined the order of Saint Augsutin in 1977 and was ordained a priest in 1982) “, said Filippo Sorcinelli, his head buried in a drawer of haphazardly stacked thread spools in his workshop in Santarcangelo in Romagna, Italy.
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