AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS
By International Autograph Auctions
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Oct 30, 2019
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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LOT 220:
JOHN XXIII: (1881-1963) Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 1958-63. Known as the Good Pope. Canonized in 2014. ...
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Sold for: €950
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680
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€680 - €1,000
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JOHN XXIII: (1881-1963) Pope of the Roman Catholic Church 1958-63. Known as the Good Pope. Canonized in 2014. T.L.S., `+A[lo] Gius[eppe] Roncalli - n[unzio] a[postolico]´, one page, 4to, Paris, 12th June 1946, as Papal Nuncio in France, to Signor Calenda, on the printed stationery of the Apostolic Nunciature in France, in Italian. Roncalli reports on a letter received, explaining that an Italian woman living in France went to Italy at the beginning of the war to visit the family and could not return. He further says that she was fiancée to a French gentleman and wishing to return and get married she cannot get her Italian passport to travel to France. John XXIII concludes saying `I would be grateful if you would like to spend a word and help the boyfriends to meet again and get married.´ With few small pinholes to the upper left corner, otherwise VG £600-900
