Angelo Roncalli Quotes

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Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli said on the eve of the conclave that would elect him Pope John XXIII: “We are not here to guard a museum, but to cultivate a flourishing garden of life.
Pope Francis (Evangelii Gaudium: The Joy of the Gospel)
Early in 1943, when the Germans had ordered that the 25,000 Jews of Sofia be deported to Poland, one man – Monsignor Angelo Roncalli, Apostolic Delegate to Turkey, later Pope John xxiii – acted without thought of political expediency or of what the Nazis might do.
Gitta Sereny (Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience)