Ioannes PP. XXIII Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli 28.X.1958 3.VI.1963 ...

Pope John XXIII Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was born in 1881, the third of thirteen children in a peasant family in Sotto il Monte, near Bergamo. The family was so poor the children had no wine. There are three ways of ruining oneself -- women, gambling and farming. My father chose the most boring. Angelino was a bright boy and was sponsored for an education at the Bergamo seminary, which carried ...