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On 5 July 2013, Pope Francis – bypassing the traditionally required second miracle – declared John XXIII a saint, based on his virtuous, model lifestyle, and because of the good which had come from his opening of the Second Vatican Council. He was canonized alongside Pope John Paul II himself on 27 April 2014.
Saint John XXIII (born November 25, 1881, Sotto il Monte, Italy—died June 3, 1963, Rome; beatified September 3, 2000canonized April 27, 2014; feast day October 11) was one of the most popular popes of all time (reigned 1958–63), who inaugurated a new era in the history of the Roman Catholic Church by his openness to change (aggiornamento ...
Learn more about Pope John XXIII! A shy, retiring man, Cardinal Angelo Roncalli became our beloved Pope Saint John XXIII. Perhaps the greatest irony was that his fellow Cardinals elected him as a stop-gap pope to give them time to get the politics ironed out for a more permanent candidate.
Nominated titular archbishop of Areopolis and apostolic visitator to Bulgaria (1925), he immediately concerned himself with the problems of the Eastern Churches. Transferred in 1934 to Turkey and Greece as apostolic delegate, he set up an office in Istanbul for locating prisoners of war.
He was called the “good pope” because of his humble, kind, and active papacy. He visited the sick and imprisoned, saw the world as his family, and made profound changes within the Church and world. During his four-and-a-half years as pope, John XXIII issued eight encyclicals.
The words of the Pope, who had opened the Second Vatican Council on 11 October, were strongly persuasive on the consciences of people, especially those of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev ( (Sergeevič Chruščëv). On 11 April 1963, Pope John XXIII published his Encyclical Letter Pacem in Terris, in which he addressed all men and ...
On 11 October, the Church celebrates St John XXIII.The good Pope, the Pope of the ‘Sermon to the Moon’, the Pope of the caress to children. Above all, the Pope of the Council, since the date chosen by Pope Francis for his liturgical memorial recalls the opening of Vatican II, 11th October 1962, that prophetic event that opened the Church to embrace modernity.
Saint John XXIII. On May 29, 2014, Pope Francis ordered the inscription of Saint John XXIII, Pope, into the General Roman Calendar. St. John is celebrated each year as an Optional Memorial on October 11. The Holy See released the proper liturgical texts in Latin, and on September 21, 2019, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline ...
John XXIII was declared Blessed by Pope John Paul II on 3 September 2000 in Saint Peter's Square, during the celebration of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000. He was canonised on 27 April 2014 by Pope Francis.
Elected Pope on 28 October 1958, he assumed the name John XXIII. His papacy, though brief, was transformative. Known as the “good Pope”, his encyclicals, Mater et Magistra and Pacem in Terris, were visionary. His magnum opus, the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, set the Church on a renewed path.