3-Year-Old Little Priest Samuel Jaramillo
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A three-year-old boy in Colombia has been making waves on the Internet for conducting mass in his living room.

The boy, Samuel Jaramillo, conducts a daily service in his living room and hopes to become a priest one day. Colombian news network RCN Noticias interviewed the boy after his family posted a YouTube video of the young boy, who can neither read nor write. Samuel told the RCN reporters he wants to be a priest and meet Pope Francis.

It was also revealed that he wanted to dress up as a bishop last Halloween and that the only items on his Christmas wish list last year were clergy robes and items to perform the holy sacraments.

"It's not something we've pushed upon him and it's not as if we're avid churchgoers," says Samuel's aunt, Elizabeth Rojas Arango, to Colombia's Rumba radio.

The boy, who is now known as "pequeño sacerdote" (little priest) in his town of Medellín, has acquired over 200,000 views. He lives with his grandmother after losing both his parents two years ago.

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