Since the sixth century, popes have taken on a new name, that of one of the Catholic saints, upon election.
Prevost – a retired Catholic school principal – admitted that his brother had spoken to him prior to the conclave and asked him what his name should be.
‘We started rattling off names just to rattle off names,’ he said, before his brother made a now-hilarious suggestion.
‘I told him it shouldn’t be Leo because it will be the 13th,’ Prevost said, suggesting it was an unlucky number.
However, as both the pope and Prevost realized, the most recent Pope Leo was, in fact, the 13th, making this Pope Leo the 14th.
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