Students in Lakeview were visited by someone who helped choose Pope Leo XIV in the real conclave. 

Last month, CBS News Chicago introduced you to students at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy, at 720 W. Belmont Ave. in the Lakeview community, as they held a mock conclave while the real thing was going on in the Vatican. People worldwide have followed their mini-conclave and their celebration of the new pope. 

On Monday, they got a special visit and some face time with Cardinal Blase Cupich.

As expected, the students wore their famous conclave attire and showed Cardinal Cupich a personal performance of the highlights from their own conclave.

The students at the school dressed up as cardinals and Swiss guards, and turned their school assembly into the Sistine Chapel.

After four rounds and a break for Goldfish crackers, they elected their own pope.

It was Cardinal Augustus Wilk, also known as fourth grader Augie Wilk, who was eventually elected with two-thirds of the vote and took the name Pope Augustine.

Students told CBS News Chicago when Pope Leo was elected days later, they were so excited for an American, Chicago-born pope. 

On Monday, the kids were able to ask a member of the real papal conclave in the Vatican what his experience was like. One little girl asked, "Did you ask all the cardinals why they want to be pope?"

"I think that if we went around and asked anybody why they'd want to be pope, a vast majority would say, 'I don't want to be pope,'" Cupich said. "Think of it. Your life is over as you knew it."

The students were very excited to find out their mock conclave was incredibly similar to the real conclave, as Cardinal Cupich pointed out. But there was one exception there.

"Everything was perfect except one thing," Cupich said. "Unfortunately, we did not have a snack break."

Cardinal Cupich made a promise to mini-cardinals of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy, who asked if Pope Leo XIV had caught their demonstration.

"Oh, I don't know that, but I'll tell you what — I'll make sure that he does," Cupich said.

The students now get to take their scarlet cassocks home, just in time for a special celebration of Pope Leo XIV at Rate Field. For that occasion, the little cardinals of Our Lady of Mount Carmel will be special guests of the Archbishop of Chicago.