Pope John XXIII (#261)

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    Pope John XXIII (#261) (1881-1963, age 82). Italian. Opened the Second Vatican Council; called “Good Pope John.” Issued the encyclical Pacem in terris (1963) on peace and nuclear disarmament; intervened for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962).

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