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Pope Leo's fellow Augustinian brothers look forward to papacy marked by unity and focus on Jesus

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Pope Leo XIV called himself an Augustinian , putting unusual spotlight on his religious order.

Augustinian friars expect Leo to bring some of St. Augustine’s spiritual trademarks to wider church .

Order is a bit of a paradox -- it remains as unassuming as when it was first organized in the mid-13th century .

The order of some 3,000 friars is active in 50 countries, with universities like Villanova in Pennsylvania and some 150,000 children enrolled in Augustinian schools.

Augustine wrote the basics of a “rule” or charter for an order, which was eventually assigned some eight centuries later by the pope to medieval hermits in Tuscany to form a single union.