Pope_John_XXIII

Pope John XXIII Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli or Pope John XXIII Was born in 1881, the third of thirteen children in a peasant family in Sotto il Monte, near Bergamo. yet due to his intelligence he was able to get out .He was sponsored for an education at the Bergamo seminary, which carried out a severe religious training. When Roncalli was ordained, in 1904, the Church was fearful and inward looking. In 1871, with the loss of the Papal States to the modern nation of Italy and the restriction of Vatican sovereignty to its current borders, Pope Pius IX was very concerned and in this state of mind, he had forbidden Italy's Catholics from taking any part in national politics. Roncalli's first assignment as a priest was as secretary to the new Bishop of Bergamo, Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi. Bishop Radini-Tedeschi was a reformer who sought to re-involve the Church in the world. In August of 1915 it was discovered that Radini-Tedeschi had cancer. Pope Pius XII died on October 9, 1958, and the conclave began two pope, john, roncalli, radini-tedeschi, first, bergamo, yet, xxiii, vatican, taking, session, schema, pius, out, new, end, elected, church, cancer, bishop, years, xii, world, weeks, voted, very, vernacular, unelectable, two-thirds, two, twelfth, transitional, training, top, thirteen