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PAGE 2—THE BULLETIN, June 27. 1959
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OUR NEW POPE
irom\ POPE JO HA X A III: An Authoritative Biography by
Aolt Aradi, Msgr. James I. Tucek, and James C. O’Neill. Copyright,
1959, by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, Inc., Publishers.
ANGELO RONCALLI, who has become Pope John XXIII,
was the third child and first boy born to Giovanni Battista and
Maira Anna (Mazzola) Roncalli, above.
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PART I
A SON OF THE SOIL
The brief, bent finger of
white smoke announcing the
election of Pope John XXIII
curled from the stovepipe chim
ney of the Sistine Chapel' at
5:08 p. in., October 28, 1958. Fif
ty thousand people in St. Pet
er’s Square watched with doubt
and suspicion as it disappeared
in the wind.
Millions of others around the
world watching television or
listening to the radio shared the
doubt. The world waited until
someone more authoritative,
something more definite than
the changeable chimney smoke
confirmed the hope that indeed
a pope had been elected.
A GREAT JOY
An hour passed. In that hour
the crowd swelled to more than
300,000 in front of St. Peter’s.
It was definite — there was a
new pope. One question pulled
like a rip tide at the sea of peo
ple: Who was he?
Cardinal Canali’s long await
ed appearance on the balcony
of St. Peter’s brought a hoarse
cheer from the waiting thous
ands.
“I announce to you a great
joy,” the short Cardinal said in
Latin. “We have a Pope.” Wait
ing a moment for the uproar
to fade, he continued: “The most
eminent and reverend — “his
voice broke for a moment. “An
gelo Giuseppe Cardinal Roncal
li.”
The small figure on the bal
cony retired. Gentlemen in wait
ing came out and the crowd
watched as a great banner was
unrolled and hung from the
edge of the stone railing of the
balcony. It was that of the late
Pope Pius XII. The familiar coat
of arms with its dove of peace
and the three symbolic moun
tains of Faith, Hope and Chari
ty, fluttered in the night air.
It was as if all were waiting
for Pius to step out once more
on the balcony. Lean and tall,
he had stood there often during
the past 19 years, a white col
umn of a Pope whose broad,
dramatic gestures never failed
to stir emotions.
Then a man in white came
out. Cheers went up as the
short, heavy figure of Pope John
XXIII moved slowly to the front
of the balcony. A heavy em
broidered stole hung around his
neck. Those on the side saw that
it rose like a half-hood at the
back of his short neck. The
white skullcap sat on the broad
head. Its rim disappeared under
the crimson stole as the new
Pope lifted his hands to ac
knowledge the crowd. The hea
vy set figure of the former Pat
riarch of Venice looked small on
the great stone loggia. This was
a different man in appearance
from his predecessor.
As he intoned his first bless
ing to the City of Rome and to
the world, the crowd knelt in
Europe renews itself.
The peasant families of Eu
rope, without means of achiev
ing social prominence and con
centrating on the daily prob- deliver it.
lem of living, remain in the
shadow. It is only when a mem
ber emerges in a brilliance vis
ible to the world that the merit
of such a family becomes
known.
City daily, L'Osservatore Ro
mano, his priest instructor had
reason to complain about his
lack of conscientiousness and
poor study habits.
The priest, it is reported, gave
the young boy a note to a neigh
boring priest for whom Angelo’s
aunt kept house, asking him to
scold the boy. But Angelo, su
specting the contents, failed to
While not a brilliant student
at the time, he later acquired
an appetite for books. He was a
normal boy and he did a great
deal of. work in addition to his
studies. No European peasant
family would let any available
“manpower” be wasted.
At the age of 11 he left home
to enter the Bergamo seminary.
THE FIRST BOY
Angelo Roncalli came from
such a family. His father, Gio
vanni Battista Roncalli, owned
nothing when Angelo was born. Entering the seminary did not
He worked the land of Count necessarily mean that the young
Ottavio Moriani. Later his fa- Roncalli would be a priest. A
ther was able to buy a farm- seminary in those days was the
house on the edge of town, sav- only place a Catholic boy could
ing cent by cent to acquire it. receive higher education.
Today, the Pope and his three when he left for Ber gamo —
brothers jointly own 70 pertiche only five miles away __ he
of the land which the brothers unknowingly put his foot on the
farm for a modest living. path that led hjm to the courts
Angelo was the third child of <->f kings, to difficult diplomatic
j, . , a fami] y of 13 and the first b °Y- triumphs and ultimately to the
the glare of floodlights. The sol- The very first day of his life highest and in many ways lone-
emn moment over, people cheer- provided an example of the re- lin est post in the world — the
ed the new pope again as they ligiousness of the atmosphere
struggled up off their knees. He and home in which he grew. up.
did not remain long on the bal- His parents did not want a
con Y- single day to pass before he. was
Below, a group of seminarians baptized. His mother,. Maria
watching him leave the loggia Anna Mazzola, left her bed a
began talking. One asked: few hours after giving birth and
“Roncalli, the new Pope — do walked with her husband to the
you know anything about him? parish church. Despite the fact
What kind of a man is he?” that a wind and rain storm was
SON OF PEASANTS raging they remained at the
Pone Tnhn vvttt church until the pastor, Don
XI11 ’ Angel ° Francesco Rebuzzini returned. ed ]n or near Sotto 11 Monte -
After the baptism, the infant The brilliant career of Angelo
was taken by his uncle godfa- Foncalli in no way altered the
ther, Saverio Roncalli, to the al- bfe of his brothers and sisters,
tar of the Madonna and placed The brothers today are not well
under her protection. to do > not even in eas Y circum-
Little Angelo lived the life of s ^ ances -
papacy.
At 11 he was strong, healthy,
used to hard work. As the son
of peasants whose sense of prac
ticality is accompanied by a
deep respect for men of learn
ing, he brought with him inno
cence and curiosity. The latter
helped him in his studies and
the former protected him.
The rest of his family remain-
Giuseppe Roncalli, is the son of
a typical European peasant fam
ily. Some would say that his fa
ther was a sharecropper, others
that he was a farmhand. None
of these expressions is quite
correct. Although he worked the
land of a nobleman he was able the village children, ofter being
to buy his own home and his in the care of his older
sisters. His mother, like the vil
lage women do today, worked
alongside her husband in the
fields.
family history was very old.
It is a documented fact that
Roncallis have lived in the lit
tle town of Sotto il Monte (un
der the mountain), in northern
Italy since Pietro Martino Ron- the new house during Angelo’s
calli came there in 1429.
One could ask the importance
of a historical family tree for
any pope. What does it matter
who his ancestors were? Yet, no
one can be completely under
stood unless there is a know-
WISH FULFILLED
An example of the family’s
present status was given when
news of his election to the pap
acy was announced. His sister,
Assunta, 68, said she naturally
When the family moved into wanted to go to the coronation.
But she was worried how she
sixth year his mother gave, up ,could make the trip. Her month
working in the fields because ] v pension amounted to 13,000
the family had increased. Tradi- ij re (about $20) and the cheapest
tional warmth and Christianity roundtrip fare from nearby
ruled the house. Each day at Milan to Rome cost 14,000 lire.'
the ringing of the noon Angelus
his mother led the family in
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and raised him. youngsters began eating seppe. 64, were fulfilled before
Angelo Roncalli was born in ie age o six Angelo went rea j] y had time to worry,
the village of Sotto il Monte on *° the nei g bborln g village of They received the Pope - s fj rst
November 25, 1881. The house Carvico to take lessons with the jnvitation and traveled to Rome
where he was born still stands parlsh pnest He walked the
The room where the event took f ? w miles dally ’ carrying his
shoes whenever possible. An
other Pope, St. Pius X, did the
same thing when he was a boy.
Angelo, of course, did not know
this at the time. For him it was
the only sensible thing to do to
place is about 21 feet by 15. It
has a low ceiling, brick floor,
and one iron-barred window
over a courtyard.
Though the building was grim
in a special railroad coach. In
St. Peter’s they sat with native
dignity close to the Pope’s
throne.
When it was over they re
turned home. Angelo Roncalli
remained in Rome. And with
him remained the experience of
his first years as a bov, the hap-
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looking and cold, the spirit of
the Roncalli family was not. As S3Ve shoe leather -
the Pope said once in Venice: POOR STUDENT
We were poor but happy. We In his early school days the his deen devotion to soil and
1 no ^ realize that we lacked future pone was not a particu- peonle from which he came,
anything and in truth we did larly distinguished student. In (Next issue — A Seminarian
not. Ours was a dignified and fact, aceordino- to the Vatican Becomes a Soldier!
hanny poverty.” yy- -
When someone recently asked
one of his nieces to show him
the room where the young An
gelo lived as a boy, she com
mented, “Oh, we are nothing
but peasants.” It was as if to
say, “There’s nothing extraor
dinary about us.” Her frank
statement was devoid of any
class consciousness or false hu
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It was in this modest farm home in Sotto il Monte, "Under the
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was born, November 25, 1881. The Roncalli family has lived
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