John XXIII

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Our Price:  £2.50(VAT Free) –+ Add to Basket Author: Josephine Robinson Product Code:  B2183 ISBN:  9781860824234 Publisher:  CTS Format:  Paperback Pages:  72 Availability:      In stock, immediate despatch Share Tweet

The Universal Parish Priest. Life of the Pope who inaugurated the Second Vatican Council. Angelo Roncalli, intelligent, modest, joyful and from the humblest of origins, became Pope aged 78. Yet his short papacy (1958-1963) inaugurated the most significant event in Church life for centuries: the Vatican Council II. The moving spiritual journey told here - his ambitions and failures, his family and the years overseas as a papal representative - reveal the gentle heart of a true pastor.