The Chicago White Sox on Monday unveiled a mural in honor of Pope Leo XIV at Rate Field, where he and members of a local family cheered on the team in 2005 in their victory in the first game of the World Series that year.

The mural, placed on a pillar near Section 140 at Rate Field, shows the first American-born Pope, a Chicago native, dressed in his papal garb, and above him, a rendering of the photograph the then-Father Robert Prevost with his longtime friend, the late Ed Schmit, and Schmit’s grandson, Eddie Schmit IV, cheering on the team, The Chicago Tribune reported.

“I don’t want anyone to think he’s a Cubs fan,” Schmit said Monday. “He’s not a Cubs fan. The Pope is a White Sox fan, and we have proved that.”

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