THE LIFE

 

BIRTH AND FIRST YEARS OF LIFE IN THE FAMILY

EDUCATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD

ORDINATION AND THE FIRST YEARS AS A PRIEST

MILITARY SERVICE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR 

FIRST NATIONAL TASK

IN THE DIPLOMATIC BODY OF THE HOLY SEE

PATRIARCH IN VENICE

ELECTION TO THE PONTIFICATE

PILGRIMAGE TO LORETO AND ASSISI

THE COUNCIL

INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR PEACE

AUDIENCE WITH THE SON-IN-LAW OF KRUSCEV

PACEM IN TERRIS

THE DEATH

THE BEATIFICATION

HIS BODY

CANONIZATION

  

On May 23 of the same year the Pope's illness was publicly announced, and on June 3, 1963, after 4 years six months and six days of pontificate, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, who had taken the name of John XXIII, died peacefully, invoking the name of Jesus and offering his life to realize the testament of Jesus: "let all be one" ("Ut unum sint").

After teaching us to live, he testified to us how to die in the light of faith. It was such an example of how a Christian dies who constituted, on a world level, one of the strongest spiritual experiences of the century. Grief was universal. A person who knew him and followed him in those few years summed up well the impression of all: "Pope John made me discover the paternity of God in a new and consoling way".