As the Peruvian Bishops' Conference announced on Monday (local time), Pope Leo XIV sent a mitre decorated with gold thread and precious stones to his former place of work.
Before his time as Prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Bishops and his election as Pope, Robert Francis Prevost, now Leo XIV, was Bishop of Chiclayo from 2015 to 2023.
The episcopal headgear was delivered by Leo's personal secretary Edgard Iván Rimaycuna Inga, who himself comes from Peru.
Photos show the mitre in a Plexiglas container, the base of which bears the Pope's signature.
On behalf of the pontiff, "Don Edgard" conveyed the message that Chiclayo has a firm place in his heart.
The secretary also announced financial support for the construction of a chapel in honour of the Archbishop of San Salvador, Óscar Arnulfo Romero (1917-1980).
Romero, an important representative of liberation theology and opponent of the military dictatorship in his home country of El Salvador at the time, was killed by snipers during a mass in 1980.
He was beatified in 2015 by Pope Francis, who also made him a saint of the Catholic Church in 2018.