Saint pope john xxiii biography of michael
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Feast Day: October 11
Canonized: April 27, 2014
Beatified: September 3, 2000
Venerated: December 20, 1999
From her very beginning, the Church has had leaders who have helped us in our search for God. Pope John XXIII was one of those leaders. Pope John XXIII was pope from 1958 until he died in 1963.
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was born November 25, 1881, in the village of Sotto il Monte (Under the Mountain) in Bergamo, a small town in Northern Italy. Even when Angelo was a young boy, his parents knew that he was not like his brothers and sisters. Angelo would not grow up to be the farmer his father wished for. The local priest, Father Francesco Rebuzzini, guided and tutored young Angelo.
Angelo was ordained a priest in 1904. More than 50 years later, when he became pope, he took the name John, his father’s name. During World War I, the young priest served as a medic and a chaplain. During World War II, as a papal diplomat in Turkey and Greece, he used his office to he
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Diocese of Paisley
Saint John XXIII
Although few people had as great an impact on the 20th century as Pope John XXIII, he avoided the limelight as much as possible. Indeed, one writer has noted that his “ordinariness” seems one of his most remarkable qualities.
The firstborn son of a farming family in Sotto il Monte, near Bergamo in northern Italy, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was always proud of his down-to-earth roots. In Bergamo’s diocesan seminary, he joined the Secular Franciscan Order.
After his ordination in 1904, Fr. Roncalli returned to Rome for canon lag studies. He soon worked as his bishop’s secretary, Church history teacher in the seminary, and as publisher of the diocesan paper.
His service as a stretcher-bearer for the Italian army during World War I gave him a firsthand knowledge of war. In 1921, Fr. Roncalli was made national director in Italy of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. He also found time to teach patristics at a seminary in the Eternal Ci
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Daily Theology invited Randall Rosenberg to reflect on his motivations for writing The Vision of Saint John XXIII, and what he discovered along the way.
By Randall Rosenberg
On the fiftieth anniversary of the death of John XXIII, Pope Francis reflected that “the wise and fatherly guidance of Pope John, his love for the church’s tradition and his awareness of the constant need for renewal, his prophetic intuition of the convocation of the Second Vatican Council and his offering of his life for its success stand as milestones in the history of the church in the 20th century and as a bright beacon for the journey that lies ahead.”
I never expected to write a book on Pope John XXIII. I was asked, as a stroke of good fortune, to deliver the keynote lecture at the 2nd Annual Newman Academic Convocation in the presence of Archbishop Robert J. Carlson, and the presidents, theology faculties, and many students of Saint Louis University, Fontbonne University, Aquinas inom