Chicago ? It became a ritual for the family of Raymond Power Jr. to gather in the bedroom of the youngest child and pray every night for the last seven months.

There, Power’s wife, Jane; their son, Raymond III, 17; and their daughter, Laura, 11; would ask God to protect their father, wherever he was. The attorney, who hailed from New Rochelle, N.Y., vanished in August.

Raymond Power surfaced Monday at a Chicago homeless shelter, where he had been living for months as a man that shelter officials knew only as Jay Tower, a man who said he could not remember anything about himself and kept asking others for help.

After Chicago police confirmed that the man was Power, they contacted his family. He was admitted into a local hospital. His memory is still a blank.

While doctors have not determined the cause of Power’s memory loss, his wife said he had been suffering from depression and had been taking medication.