The Vatican's media outlets have announced the release of the documentary "Leon de Peru" (Leo of Peru), an audiovisual production that follows the journey of Robert Francis Prevost,
, during his nearly 40-year pastoral mission in our country before becoming Supreme Pontiff.
Vatican News —the information portal of the Holy See—
released the documentary's trailer, approximately two minutes long, along with a news summary of the content.
"Missionary, parish priest, professor, formator, bishop, and friend. A new documentary entitled 'Leon de Peru' (Leo of Peru, in Spanish) follows the footsteps of Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV. Produced by Vatican Media's journalists Salvatore Cernuzio, Felipe Herrera-Espaliat, and Jaime Vizcaino Haro, the documentary reconstructs the years the Augustinian Pope spent in the Latin American country," reads the introductory paragraph.
"It unfolds across Chulucanas, Trujillo, Lima, Callao, and Chiclayo, touching small and large cities, villages, districts, suburbs, parishes, schools, and religious houses," the
article adds.
The Vatican's media outlets are made up of the information portal Vatican News, Vatican Radio, L'Osservatore Romano, and Vatican Media.
It is worth noting that
although Pope Leo XIV is North American, he also holds Peruvian nationality, a country where he spent much of his pastoral life, especially "in my beloved diocese of Chiclayo," the memorable and historic greeting in Spanish with which he began his pontificate.