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Pope Leo XIV’s childhood house is being put up for public sale, however the Village of Dolton, Illinois, is taking a look at methods to develop into its new proprietor.
The present proprietor just lately determined to make the house situated within the Chicago suburb obtainable for buy through an upcoming public sale. Bidding for the small brick house, with a reserve worth of $250,000, will likely be open till the late afternoon on June 18, in accordance with the true property public sale agency Paramount Realty USA’s web site.
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It has three bedrooms, with 1,050 sq. ft of dwelling house, the itemizing with iCandy Realty confirmed.
The childhood house of Pope Leo XIV is seen on Could 8, 2025 in Dolton, Illinois. (Jim Vondruska/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
The present proprietor initially put it up on the market in January after shopping for it in Could 2024 for a small sum of $66,000 and renovating it.
Its itemizing was eliminated on Could 8 – the day that Pope Leo XIV, whose given title is Robert Prevost, was chosen to develop into the brand new and first American pontiff – whereas the proprietor mulled what to do with the property, the New York Submit reported on the time. It had been priced at $199,000.
Pope Leo XIV shakes arms throughout an viewers with representatives of the media in Paul VI corridor on the Vatican on Could 12, 2025. (Reuters/Eloisa Lopez / Reuters)
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FOX Enterprise correspondent Kelly Saberi reported a letter despatched by the village to the public sale home stated to “please inform any prospective buyers that their ‘purchase’ may only be temporary since the Village intends to begin the eminent domain process very shortly.”
“The attorney for the village said that despite its now historical significance and people coming from around the world pray before the home, touch the home of the first American pope, the home will be acquired by the village at a fair market value for the area and not an inflated price,” Saberi reported.
It needs to make Pope Leo’s childhood a historic website on account of its connection to the Catholic Church’s 267th pope.
Pope Leo was appointed the pontiff to succeed the late Pope Francis after 4 votes of the church’s cardinals.
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the USA, seems on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on the Vatican on Could 8, 2025. (REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane / Reuters)
The Chicago-area native had been a cardinal for over a 12 months and a half previous to changing into pope. He first grew to become a priest in 1982.
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He has important ties to Peru, the place he served for a few years, together with because the Bishop of Chiclayo, The Related Press reported.
He additionally spent a while in Chicago throughout his clerical profession in varied positions, in accordance with the Faculty of Cardinals Report.
