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i 4 4 t 1 PAGE 2—THE BULLETIN, June 27. 1959 BARATTA’S ITALIAN-AMERICAN RESTAURANT , ■ 1404 PEACHTREE, N. E. 1 ATLANTA, GA. V * " TR. 6-9496 RUBBER STAMPS ...MADE TO ORDER... Retail - Prompt Service - Wholesale DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Sample Type Sheet Mailed On Request Large or Small We Make Them dll TDM BACCUS, Owner P, O. BOX S7 Social Circle, Ba. 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. MULLINS T.V. SERVICE SALES it SERVICE Satisfaction Guaranteed 118 Tenth Street, N.E., TR. 2-6975 Atlanta, Ga. Sutter & McLet/an 70Ur/tjJdepexdtKt -ii»vis/repu 1023 MORTGAGE GUARANTEE BUILDING JAckson 5-2086 ATLANTA, GEORGIA Where Insurance Is A Profession . . . 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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 OUTBOARD SALES & SERVICE 802 PRYOR ST., S. W. JA. 4-8766 OUTBOARD SALES & SERVICE Johnson Seahorse Motors — Holsclaw Trailers — Marine Supplies — Parts, Repairs, All Motors ft Payt To Know Your STATE FARM Agont DOUG STEPHENS INSURANCE SERVICE Auto • Life • Fire 125 Trinity Place Decatur, Ga. DR. 3-4424 BILL DALY'S RED BARN CE. 3-4625 • CE. 3-4531 _ Cold plates rate iND O’ LAKES sweet cream BUTTER cream in every pound Her desire and that of the , . , , three surviving brothers, Sav- ledge of the family that bore prayei ' be *> re the hungry erio. 74: Alfredo. 69. and Giu- 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- pv memorv of his family and CASTLEBERRY'S APPLIANCES Visit Oiir Beautiful Show Room Located in Chamblee. J’umflnire—Appliances—Television GL. 7-0216 3614 Chamblee-Dunwoody Kd. Chamblee, Ga. || I HAPEVILLE JEWELRY COMPANY 583-B S. Centra! Ave. HAPEVILLE, GA. The Paint That Can Take All Kinds of Weather ... ' t if r ’ t r r r~~r> The result of extensive re search in the ready-mixed paint field — Precision One-Coat Outside Paint has been formulated to withstand the hazards of extreme climatic conditions. 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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 mility. It was a statement of fact. The fact, however, is one of the fundamental realities of Europe. 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