John XXIII
SAINT POPE JOHN XXIII
Official name : Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli
Nationality : Italy
Born: November 25, 1881
Deceased: June 3, 1963
Titular Archbishop of Areopolis, 1925-1934
Apostolic Nuncio to Bulgaria, 1931-1934
Titular Archbishop of Mesembria, 1934-1953
Apostolic Nuncio to Turkey, 1934-1944
Apostolic Nuncio to Greece, 1934-1944
Apostolic Nuncio to France, 1944-1953
Cardinal 1953
Patriarch of Venezia, 1853-1958
Pope 1958-1963
Beatified 2000
Canonized 2014
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Origin/meaning
The tower is common to all the arms associated with the families of Roncalli, the bar only in the arms of the Roncalli di Rovigo family. These are the basis of the arms.
The fleur-de-lis were granted to him by the Heraldic Commission of the Holy See on his appointment in 1925 to the titular See of Areopolis (Rabba in Palestine) as the emblems of that See.
The chief is that borne by the Patriarchs of Venice in modern times, and there is precedent for its retention on election to the Holy See in the arms borne by St. Pius X (1903-14).
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Literature: Goodall, 1959.