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title: "St. John XXIII: Feast Day October 11 · Bless"
url: https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-xxiii/
description: "St. John XXIII, Pope. Remembered on October 11, died 1963. Read their life in Bless."
---

Pope · Remembered on October 11

# St. John XXIII

St. John XXIII is remembered on October 11 in Bless’s calendar of saints.

|  |  |
|---|---|
| Remembered on | [October 11](https://blessbible.app/saints/october/#11) |
| Title | Pope |
| Died | 1963 |
| Next on Bless’s Today screen | [Monday, October 11, 2027](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-xxiii/#calendar) |

## Life

Angelo Roncalli, a sharecropper’s son from Bergamo: army chaplain, historian, Vatican diplomat in Bulgaria, Turkey — where he helped Jewish refugees escape — and France, then patriarch of Venice, elected pope at nearly seventy-seven as a ‘caretaker.’

The caretaker summoned the Second Vatican Council, threw open the windows, visited Rome’s prisons and children’s hospitals, and wrote Pacem in Terris to the whole world in the shadow of the missile crisis. ‘Good Pope John’ died as the Council’s first session ended, mourned far beyond the Church.

## In the calendar

The upcoming dates, through December 31, 2028, when Bless’s Today screen shows St. John XXIII. Where the US calendar keeps another celebration that day, it is named instead and no rank is given.

| Date | In the US calendar | Color | Mass readings (US) |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Monday, October 11, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/10/11/) | Monday of the Twenty-eighth Week in Ordinary Time | Green | Romans 1:1-7 · Psalm 98:1bcde, 2-3ab, 3cd-4 · Psalm 95:8 · Luke 11:29-32 |
| [Wednesday, October 11, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/10/11/) | Wednesday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time | Green | Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14 · Psalm 117:1bc, 2 · Romans 8:15bc · Luke 11:1-4 |

Readings

Later citations were computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

[October 10 St. Francis Borgia](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-francis-borgia/) [October 12 St. Wilfrid](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-wilfrid/)

[All the saints of October](https://blessbible.app/saints/october/) [Born on October 11?](https://blessbible.app/saints/birthday/#10-11) [A saint for every day](https://blessbible.app/saints/)

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St. John XXIII

Remembered on October 11

On this page

1. [Life](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-xxiii/#life)
2. [In the calendar](https://blessbible.app/saints/st-john-xxiii/#calendar)

In the app

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