Two Documents of Spanish Patronage by Pope Bl. John XXIII
Below are English translations of two documents by Pope Bl. John XXIII declaring patronages of various groups of Spanish. I have not been able to find these documents on-line in English, so I translated them out of Spanish. I do not claim that these translations are perfect in any respect, but I hope they at least portray the basics of these documents. I hope these translations are helpful. Pope Bl. John XXIII Apostolic Letter Peculiare Studium 4/22/1960 Constituting St. John Bosco Patron of Young Spanish Apprentices Pope John XXIII, For perpetual memory Particular and careful zeal has to be had, as we all understand, with the youth that learn an art or trade, so that his life conforms with true human dignity and with the norms of religion and piety. And this is demand above all in our times, in which such perverse doctrines are propagated that augment corrupting seductions and there are so many dedicated to the exclusive triumph of the material, with many dangers for the souls of ...