Pope St.

John XXIII (born Angelo

Giuseppi Roncalli) was pope from
1958 to 1963. As the head of the
Catholic Church, he was known for
revising the Roman Missal (or
guidelines to how to say the mass
among Latin Rite Catholics) in 1962,
and calling to order the Second
Vatican Ecumenical Council that same
year. He unfortunately died in 1963, a
year after the council started, and the
rest of the council was led by his
successor, Pope St.Paul VI. His
beatification process was started in
1965 under that same pope, and he
was declared a saint by Pope Francis
in April of 2014, along with a another
former pope, Pope John Paul II (r.
1978-2005). He is considered the
patron saint of the Second Vatican
Ecumenical Council, of Christian unity,
of the Patriarch of Venice, and of Papal
delegates.