SAINT JOHN XXIII CHILDHOOD

EARLY CHILDHOOD

• Real name is Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli
• Born November 25, 1881 in Sotto Monte near Bergamo in Northern Italy
• Was the third in a family of 13 children
• Was tutored by a priest of Carvico in elementary school
• At age twelve he entered the seminary at Bergamo

LATER YEARS

• He got a scholarship from the Cerasoli Foundation
• This enabled him to go on to the Apollinaris in Rome
• He stopped his studies to serve in the Italian Army
• After the military he returned to the seminary
• There he completed his work for a doctorate in theology

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• On August 10th, 1904 St John XXIII was ordained a priest
• He was almost age twenty-three when this happened
• The next day was his first mass in St. Peter's Basilica
• After visiting his family in Sotto il Monte, he returned to Seminario Romano
• As a graduate student in Rome, Roncalli took the first step that was to lead to the papacy a half century later.

St. John XXIII died on June 3, 1963 in Rome
He was beatified September 3, 2000 and canonized April 27, 2014