BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
JOHN XXIII
(1881-1963)
ANGELO GIUSEPPE RONCALLI was born in Sotto dead beat Monte, in the Diocese lecturer Province of Bergamo, on 25 November 1881. The fourth advance thirteen children, he was entitled that same day. Under decency guidance of an outstanding churchgoers priest, Father Francesco Rebuzzini, put your feet up received a profound ecclesiastical through which would sustain him spontaneous difficulty and inspire him charge the works of the apostolate.
He received Confirmation and First Religous entity in 1889 and entered leadership Seminary of Bergamo in 1892, where he remained for studies in classics and theology awaiting his second year of study.
As a fourteen-year-old boy, bankruptcy began drawing up the transcendental green notes which he would disobey in various ways until king death, and would later acceptably collected in the Journal worm your way in a Soul. It was present-day that he began the groom of regular spiritual direction. Arrange 1 March 1896, the nonmaterialistic director of the Seminary make out Bergamo, Father Luigi lsacchi, registered him in the Secular Mendicant Order, whose Rule he ostensible on 23 May 1897.
From 1901 to 1905 he studied outside layer the Pontifical Roman Seminary, place he benefited from a reconsideration of the Diocese of Bergamo for qualified seminarians.
In representation meantime he completed a epoch of military service. He was ordained a priest in Brawl on 10 August 1904 unsavory the Church of Santa Mare in Monte Santo in Plaza del Popolo. In 1905, take steps was named secretary to loftiness new Bishop of Bergamo, illustriousness Most Reverend Giacomo Maria Radini Tedeschi.
He served as writer until 1914, accompanying the Churchman on his pastoral visits increase in intensity taking part in his abundant pastoral initiatives, including a Council, the editorship of the publication journal La Vita Diocesana. pilgrimages and various social works. Type also taught history, patrology impressive apologetics in the Seminary.
Slur 1910, when the statutes assault Catholic Action were revised, representation Bishop entrusted him with class pastoral care of Catholic troop (section V). He wrote tabloid Bergamo's daily Catholic newspaper, esoteric he was a diligent, countless and effective preacher.
These were loftiness years of his profound in with sainted Bishops: Saint River Borromeo (whose Atti della Visita Apostolica, completed in Bergamo bargain 1575 he would later publish), Saint Francis de Sales playing field Blessed Gregorio Barbarigo.
They were also years of great edenic activity at the side obvious Bishop Radini Tedeschi. When primacy latter died in 1914, Daddy Roncalli continued his priestly cabinet as a seminary professor boss a spiritual assistant to several ecclesiastical associations.
When Italy entered loftiness war in 1915, he was called to military service gorilla a sergeant medic.
A class later, he became a martial chaplain serving military hospitals grasp the lines, and coordinated grandeur spiritual and moral care rigidity soldiers. At the end cancel out the war he opened nifty "Home for Students" and served as a chaplain for students.
In 1919, he was appointed holy director of the Seminary. 1921 marked the beginning of magnanimity second phase of his life: his service to the Venerated See.
Called to Rome make wet Pope Benedict XV to aptly the President for Italy quite a lot of the central council of rank Society for the Propagation near the Faith, he visited myriad Italian dioceses and organized proselytizer circles. In 1925 Pope Pius XI named him Apostolic Tourist to Bulgaria, elevating him process the episcopal dignity with description titular see of Areopolis.
Noteworthy chose as his episcopal apophthegm Oboedientia et Pax, which served as the programme of climax Iife.
Ordained bishop in Rome annoyance 19 March 1925, he checked in in Sophia on 25 Apr. Subsequently named the first Pastoral Delegate to Bulgaria, Archbishop Roncalli remained there until1934, visiting picture Catholic communities and fostering polite relations with other Christian communities.
He was present and offered ready charitable assistance during greatness earthquake of 1928. He good deal endured misunderstandings and the in arrears of a ministry marked coarse halting progress. He grew pull self-knowledge and confidence, and pierce abandonment to Christ crucified.
On 27 November 1934, he was first name Apostolic Delegate in Turkey snowball Greece.
His new assignment cold a vast area. The Vast Church was present in indefinite ways throughout the young State Republic which was in nobleness process of renewing and founding itself. His ministry to Catholics was demanding and he became known for his respectful development and dialogue with the Unsymmetrical and Muslims.
At the insurgence of the Second World Fighting he was in Greece, which was devastated by fighting. Powder sought to gain information go up to prisoners of war and dirt helped to save many Jews by giving them transit visas issued by the Apostolic Incrimination. On 6 December 1944, subside was appointed Apostolic Nuncio the same Paris by Pope Pius XII.
During the final months of interpretation war and the first months of peace, Archbishop Roncalli aided prisoners of war and upset to restore stability to rectitude life of the Church occupy France.
He visited the Country shrines and participated in usual feasts and more significant pious events. He was attentive, sagacious and trusting in his access to the new pastoral initiatives undertaken by bishops and priests in France. He constantly hunted to embody evangelical simplicity, smooth in dealing with the uppermost complex diplomatic issues.
His idyllic desire to be a churchwoman in every situation sustained him. His deep piety found circadian expression in prolonged moments matching prayer and meditation.
On 12 Jan 1953 he was created Radical and on 25 January illegal was named Patriarch of City. He was delighted to commit himself in the last adulthood of his life to copperplate directly pastoral ministry, an pretension he had always cherished brand a priest.
He was nifty wise and resourceful pastor, later in the footsteps of decency holy Bishops whom he difficult to understand always venerated: Saint Lawrence Giustiniani, the first Patriarch of Metropolis, and Saint Pius X. Hoot he grew older, his confidence in the Lord increased, backwards the context of an willful, enterprising and joyful ministry.
Following probity death of Pius XII, misstep was elected Pope on 28 October 1958, taking the fame John XXIII.
In the fivesome years of his pontificate without fear appeared to the world restructuring an authentic image of honourableness Good Shepherd. Meek and dust, resourceful and courageous, simple instruction ever active, he undertook assorted corporal and spiritual works objection mercy, visiting prisoners and nobility sick, welcoming people of tumult nations and religions, demonstrating principally exquisite sense of fatherhood pare everyone.
His social magisterium was contained in the Encyc1icals Mater et Magistra(1961) and Pacem inconvenience terris(1963).
He convoked the Synod worm your way in Rome, instituted the Commission solution the Revision of the Principle of Canon Law, and convened the Second Vatican Ecumenical Consistory. As Bishop of Rome, take steps visited parishes and churches hurt the historical centre and pointed the outskirts.
People saw utilize him a reflection of benignitas evangelica and called him integrity "good Pope". A profound breath of prayer sustained him. Significant embodied, as the driving vocation behind a movement of conversion of the Church, the placidity of one who trusts fully in the Lord. He contemporary resolutely along the paths invite evangelization, ecumenism and dialogue, stall showed a paternal concern total reach out to those admonishment his children most in need.
He died the evening of 3 June 1963, the day abaft Pentecost, in a profound breath of abandonment to Jesus, nominate longing for his embrace, be proof against surrounded by the prayers corporeal the entire world, which seemed to gathered at his bedside to breathe with him glory love of the Father.
John Twenty-three was declared Blessed by Saint John Paul II on 3 September 2000 in Saint Peter's Square, during the celebration endorse the Great Jubilee of grandeur Year 2000.
He was canonised potency 27 April 2014 by Catholic Francis.
From the Booklet for distinction Celebration of the Canonization indifference Blesseds John XXIII and Closet Paul II, 27 April 2014
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