Paul VI – A Christian of the 20th Century

With his notes for his testament and a personal assessment of his pontificate. “I close my eyes on this suffering, dramatic and magnificent land, imploring once again the divine Goodness upon it. Once again I bless everyone. Especially Rome, Milan and Brescia.” Thus, naming three cities, Giovanni Battista Montini summarised his life retrospectively in a truly inspired testament: his youth in Brescia, the thirty years spent in the Vatican in the Secretariat of State, the eight as archbishop of Milan, and the fifteen on the chair of the apostle Peter under the name of Paul VI (1963-1978). A life, decisive for contemporary Catholicism, which this book presents in its first part, deepening in the second the relationship of a modern man with holiness, a dimension that when it is authentic succeeds in attracting the attention of not only believers.

GIOVANNI MARIA VIAN TE

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