Editing Pope Paul VI (section)

==Early life==
[[File:MontiniMay291920.jpg|thumb|right|175px|Montini on the day of his ordination in 1920]]
Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini was born in the village of [[Concesio]], in the [[Province of Brescia]], [[Lombardy]], Italy, in 1897. His father, [[:it:Giorgio Montini|Giorgio Montini]] (1860–1943), was a lawyer, journalist, director of the [[Catholic Action]], and member of the Italian Parliament. His mother, Giudetta Alghisi (1874–1943), was from a family of rural nobility. He had two brothers, Francesco Montini (1900–1971), who became a physician, and [[:it:Lodovico Montini|Lodovico Montini]] (1896–1990), who became a lawyer and politician.{{Sfn| Lazzarini|1964|pp=20–21}}<ref>{{Cite web |title=Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, aka Pope Paul VI |url=https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/L8VQ-V5G |access-date=4 January 2023 |website=www.familysearch.org |archive-date=4 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230104151459/https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/L8VQ-V5G |url-status=live }}</ref> On 30 September 1897, he was baptised with the name Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini.{{Sfn|Lazzarini|1964|p=19}} He attended the Cesare Arici school, run by the [[Jesuits]], and in 1916 received a diploma from the [[Arnaldo da Brescia]] public school in [[Brescia]]. His education was often interrupted by bouts of illness.

In 1916, he entered the [[seminary]] to become a Catholic priest. He was [[Ordination|ordained]] on 29 May 1920 in Brescia and celebrated his first [[Mass in the Catholic Church|Mass]] at the [[Santa Maria delle Grazie, Brescia]].{{Sfn|Lazzarini|1964|p=26}} Montini concluded his studies in [[Milan]] with a doctorate in [[canon law]] in the same year.{{Sfn|Franzen|1988|p=419}} He later studied at the [[Gregorian University]], the [[University of Rome La Sapienza]] and, at the request of [[Giuseppe Pizzardo]], the [[Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy|Pontifical Academy of Ecclesiastical Nobles]]. In 1922, at the age of twenty-five, again at the request of Giuseppe Pizzardo, Montini entered the [[Secretariat of State (Holy See)|Secretariat of State]], where he worked under Pizzardo together with [[Francesco Borgongini-Duca]], [[Alfredo Ottaviani]], [[Carlo Grano]], [[Domenico Tardini]] and [[Francis Spellman]].{{Sfn|Lazzarini|1964|p=31}} Consequently, he never had an appointment as a parish priest. In 1925 he helped found the publishing house Morcelliana in Brescia, focused on promoting a 'Christian-inspired culture'.<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.morcelliana.it/eng/MENU_NUOVO/OUR_HISTORY/67551.html|title=Our History|publisher=Morcelliana|place=IT|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403101342/http://www.morcelliana.it/eng/MENU_NUOVO/OUR_HISTORY/67551.html|archive-date=3 April 2015|access-date=12 September 2013}}</ref>