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MONDAY JUNE 3. 1963 GEORGIA BULLETIN PAGE 5 POPE JOHN AND HIS PREDECESSOR RECEIVES RED BIRETTA LEAVES FOR CONCLAVE New Pontiff Angelo Cardinal Roncalli, Patriarch of Venice, like another citizen of Bergamo, Pope St. Pins X, is shown on the day he left his archepiscopal See to join his fellow Princes of the Church in the Papal Conclave. This conclave elected him Pontiff on October 28, 1958. . < Angelo Cardinal Roncalli, soon to be named Pope by the College of Cardinals, is on his way to attend a meeting of Cardinals shortly before the Con clave which would elect him Pope John XX1I1. He had just arrived from Ven ice following the death of Pope Pius XII. Named a Cardinal while serving as Papal Nuncio to t ranee, a 400-year-old tradition is followed when French President Vincent Auriol presented the red biretta to future Pope John XXIII, on January 16, 1953. He went to Rome later to receive the Red Hat from Pope Pius XII. Marks Council PAPAL DELEGATE TO LOURDES His Holiness Pope John XXIII is shown with his immediate predecessor, Pope Pius XXII when he was about to depart as Cardinal Legate to Lourdes in March, 1958. Pope Pius raised the future Pope John to the College of Cardinals in January, 1953, and appointed him Patriach of Venice, where he served until his election to the Papacy. This medal by Italian sculptor Giacomo Manzu commemorated the open ing (October 11) of the Second Vatican Council. His Holiness Pope John XXIII, whose likeness ap pears on both sides, dis tributed the medal to mark the historic beginning of the 21st ecumenical coun cil. VISITOR TO VENICE ■' ’AV.V.V/IvIvvX •v&$, i vie FIRST PORTRAIT AS POPE JOHN XXIII While Patriarch of Venice, one of Pope John’s first projects was to renovate the rooms occupied by Pope St. Pius X when he was Patriarch of Venice. The first visitor to the restored rooms was Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, shown walking with the future Pontiff. Marks Coronation NEW POPE - FIRST AUDIENCE The Vatican issued this commemorative medal to mark the coronation of His Holiness Pope John XXIII on November 4, 1958. De signed by Aurelio Mistruz- zi, it carries a side portrait of the Holy Father and a relief of the papal tiara, above which there is a dove representing the Holy Spirit and the rays of the divine sun. Immediately following his election as successor to Pope Pius XII, the new Pontiff, His Holiness Pope John XXIII extends a welcoming hand as he receives his well-wishers in the Sistine Chapel. He is shown wearing a white skull cap, red cape, and gold embroidered pallium. ; j 1 • ✓ \ ■ i k-' **J***-- ■ Ls f f < m w V . m