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Italian Peasant's Son Who Became Pope A Man of Many Surprises
The profile of Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, born 1881 in Sotto Monte, rising from sharecropper's son to Pope John XXIII. It covers his early life, education in Bergamo and Rome, wartime service, Vatican diplomatic career, and rise to cardinal before papacy, highlighting his warmth and reforms.
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Vatican City
UPI
John XXIII
Pope John
Vatican
Pius X11
John
Pius XII
St. Peter
Sacred College
Rome
Loreto
Assisi
Ecumenical Council
Regina Coeli
Angieo Guiseppe Roncalli
Sotto Monte
Under the Mountain
Bergamo
Italy
Giovanni Battista Roncalli
Marianna Mazzola Roncalli
Saverio
Alfredo
Guiseppe
Sotto Il Monte
Assunta
Sesto San Giovanni
Milan
Adda
Little Angelo
Pontifical Seminary
Church of Santa Maria In
Monte Santo
St. Peter's Basilica
Father Roncalli
Msgr
Giacomo Count Radini-Tedeschi
Radini-Tedeschi
Ambrosiana Library
Charles Borromeo
Roncalli
Catholic Action Movement
Benedict XV
Society For the Propagation of the Faith
Pope Pius XI
Vatican Secretariat of State
Acropolis
Bulgaria
Turkey
Greece
Istanbul
Apostolo
Paris
Charlies de Gaulle
Holy See
Vichy
France
Domenico Tardini
Tardini
Msgr. Roncalli
de Gaulle
Valerio Cardinal Valeri
Marshall Philippe Petain
Pope John XXIII