Gioele Magaldi, author of "Massoni": Angelo Roncalli was a masonic initiate
Gioele Magaldi, Italian author and historian, contends in Massoni - La Scoperta delle Ur-Lodges that Angelo Roncalli/John XXIII was initiated first in the Rosicrucian leaning Ur-lodge "Ghedullah" (Istanbul), and later in the lodge "Montesquieu" while papal nuncio in Paris.