Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, has some interesting connections to West Michigan, and specifically, some content that this very blog has covered! According to Wood TV 8, Pope Leo attended the St. Augustine Seminary in Laketown Township , between Holland and Saugatuck. Where have we heard that name before? Oh yeah, it's Felt Mansion ! After inventor Dorr E. Felt passed away, the property was sold to the Archdiocese Of Chicago, where it was converted to a boarding school in 1962, before closing down in 1977 and being sold to the State Of Michigan to become a minimum-security prison complex.