From the day he took office, Pope John XXIII made clear that he was not going to change the warm, outgoing nature that had made him a beloved Patriarch of Venice. Last week one more story was added to the lore of the man who is already one of the best-loved Popes of modern times. He has given away his breviary—and to an Anglican. The recipient: Canon Donald Rea. vicar of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Eye, Suffolk, and chairman of the Anglican Confraternity of Unity, founded in 1926 "to restore communion with the Holy See."
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