Pope Saint John XXIII, born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, was Pope from 28 October 1958 to his death in 1963. He was known affectionately as “Good Pope John”.

On 3 September 2000, John was declared “Blessed” alongside Pope Pius IX by Pope John Paul II, the penultimate step on the road to sainthood after a miracle of curing an ill woman was discovered.

On April 27, 2014, Pope Francis declared John XXIII and John Paul II saints at St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

Prayer is the raising of the mind to God.

We must always remember this.

The actual words matter less.

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity.

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.