Capovilla - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 05 Feb 2014 23:26:03 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Capovilla - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Newest and oldest cardinal, a sprightly 98! https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/02/07/newest-oldest-cardinal-sprightly-98/ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 18:30:32 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=54037

When the freshly named patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Angelo Roncalli, chose 37-year-old Fr. Loris Capovilla as his private secretary in 1953, a skeptical adviser told the cardinal that the priest looked too sickly to bear the strain of his new job. "Then he'll die as my secretary," replied the future pope, now known as Blessed Read more

Newest and oldest cardinal, a sprightly 98!... Read more]]> When the freshly named patriarch of Venice, Cardinal Angelo Roncalli, chose 37-year-old Fr. Loris Capovilla as his private secretary in 1953, a skeptical adviser told the cardinal that the priest looked too sickly to bear the strain of his new job.

"Then he'll die as my secretary," replied the future pope, now known as Blessed John XXIII.

Today, at age 98, now-Archbishop Capovilla has outlived his employer by half a century and remains an indefatigable custodian of his legacy, running a small museum dedicated to Blessed John's memory in the late pope's native town of Sotto il Monte Giovanni XXIII, about 25 miles northeast of Milan.

On Feb. 22, Pope Francis is scheduled to make the archbishop the world's oldest living cardinal. Continue reading.

Source: National Catholic Reporter

Image: Cardinal-elect Capovilla in the museum dedicated to Blessed John XXIII in Sotto il Monte Giovanni XXIII, Italy, in February 2012 CNS/Paul Haring

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