A stray dog named Carmelo is getting heavenly treatment at a Bolivian monastery after friars adopted him, dressed him with a custom-made habit and unknowingly turned him into a star.

Carmelo is the newest social media sensation, as people around the globe are melting seeing him wearing his brown Franciscan habit with such grace.

The cute little schnauzer was also given a custom-made title, Fray Bigotón (Big Moustache Friar), which he happily carries around the monastery.

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"Here all of the brothers love him very much. He is a creature of God," Friar Jorge Fernandez told The Dodo.

The pics were posted on Facebook by Kasper Mariusz Kapron OFM, a fellow friar from Poland who now lives in Cochabamba, an Andean city located in central Bolivia.

Carmelo has brought joy to the friars and his story hope to the animal shelters around town.

"If only all the churches of our country adopt a dog and care for him like Fray Bigotón, we are sure that the parishioners would follow his example," wrote on Facebook Proyecto Narices Frias, the non-profit that runs the shelter Carmelo came from.



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That is the cutest/sweetest thing I've seen all day

Great story. I love the photos of the Big Mustache Friar.

That is just awesome. Best wishes to all of the friars, and especially Frey Bigoton.

I'm glad to see he is starting off with a nice habit.

Just to awesome! Love every bit of it.

It made me smile and laugh alittle.

ARman

The monks of New Skete find their path to G*d via raising GSDs. Smart men.

I needed that smile.

Doesn't have the haircut that I remember on the Friars. ;-) And, better looking than some I remember.