The artifact presented here is a note of thanks, written in Mon. G. Battista Montini’s own hand on his business card. It was written on July 22, 1937, at which time he was working in the office of the Secretary of State.

The term, Sac included in his name is the Latin abbreviation for Sacerdote, meaning priest.

G. Battista Montini became Pope Paul VI in 1963 upon the death of Pope John XXIII.