Father Judge High School - Quest Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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4' His Holiness Pope John XXIII

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Hls Hollness Pope Plus XII

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Shepherd of the Flock of Christ At Satto il Monte in Italy, Angelo Guiseppe Roncalli was born on November 25, 1881. There is not much about his childhood except that he was a good student. He was ordained a priest on August 10, 1904, and was the Private Secretary to Bishop Randini Tedeschi of Bergama until 1914. He was a professor of Church History, Apologetics, and later Patrology at the Bergama seminary. During the First World War, he served as a sergeant with the Medi- cal Corps of the Italian Army for a year and then became a chaplain at military hospital. After the war he organized the first Students' House in Italy to provide free assistance for the children of the middle class people attending public schools In 1921 he was named president of the Italian Society for the Propa gation of the Faith He became Apostolic Visitor to Bulgaria in 1925 he was consecrated an Archbishop on March 19 of that year and named Apostolic Delegate to Bulgaria in 1930 In 1935 he was appointed Apostolic Delegate to Turkey and Greece and also Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Vicarate Apostolic of Con stantmople He was elevated to a Cardinal of the Church on January 12 1953 and three days later named Patriarch of Venice In 1957 he received the Grand Merit Cross of the German govern ment for activities on behalf of the German prisoners of war while Apostolic Nuncio to France Early in 1958 he flew to Lourdes as personnel delegate of Pius XII to dedicate a new underground Basilica there He was elected Pope on October 28 1958 We hope and pray that John XXIII will have a long reign filled with peace and prosperity ff II I H ISIZHIETIIQMBI LU gggmmllwn I I P. J X. ' 'XZ - 4-JXIV. I ll lf- MI-IIN'i 'A' 1 .' 1 - '7' ' ,I I ,IR 1. L If ,.i,I,11j,,gjE f'I H, LL in , , T -1 A ,, 'I T, F 'xv IJ, l J Y ,, t' '.n Y r -' uf, M' ,,--eQ- 5 43,2 Ev! -347-:nil 21 du' : Af ,I ITL. 1 Hqwli ii ul ' ,Muni ,. I ' 1--' IA P' if i' Il A f??1-y 4,1-m ,,y+ 'sfvfw - I I ,IIA I lg, , -QQ, I ' I gg-e-5 ff? 35399 I I I I r , 1 'T'- '-' i-'.i: '-1 f I 1 .1 -ii25f1zi'E?1'.. 3 I ' MAI, ni' w-1l7H--L3w.f-v,,-7-7-- A. v f v-rot:-f'TTf1 'Inni- gli I ff-JIU