Filipino recalls chance encounter with newly elected Pope Leo XIV in 2010

. Young Carlo Olayta took a photo in 2010 with Rev. Fr. Robert Prevost, who was then the prior general of the Order of Saint Augustine, at a monastery in Bulacan. - COURTESY OF CARLO OLAYTA

MANILA: A 19-year-old in 2010, Carlo Olayta never thought he would have the chance to meet someone who will one day become the 267th Pope of the Catholic Church.

Olayta told INQUIRER.net that 15 years ago, he was invited to the solemn profession of vows of Sr Agnes Park of the Order of Saint Augustine (OSA). There he met someone—the order’s prior general.