May. 29 Saturday of the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of St. Paul VI, pope; St. Ursula Ledóchowska (Poland), Weekday

St. Paul VI was canonized and added to the liturgical calendar on January 25, 2019, the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. Giovanni Battista Montini was born on September 26, 1897, in a village near Brescia Concesio. On May 29, 1920, he was named Archbishop of Milan. He became Pope on June 21, 1963. He presided over the completion of the Second Vatican Council. He died On August 6, 1978.