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  • Pope Pius X
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  • Pope Pius X ( Latin: Pius PP. X) (June 2 1835 — August 20 1914), born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was Pope from 1903 to 1914, succeeding Pope Leo XIII (1878–1903). He was the first Pope since the Counter-Reformation Pope Pius V (1566–72) to be canonized. Despite this, the legacy of Pius X's pontificate remains controversial among socialists, liberals and modernists.
  • Pope Pius was a Marian Pope, whose encyclical Ad Diem Illum expresses his desire through Mary to renew all things in Christ, which he had defined as his motto in his first encyclical. Pius believed that there is no surer or more direct road than by Mary to achieve this goal. Pius X was the only Pope in the 20th century with extensive pastoral experience at the parish level, and pastoral concerns permeated his papacy; he favoured the use of the vernacular in catechesis. Frequent communion was a lasting innovation of his papacy. Pius X, like Pope Pius IX, was considered by some to be too outspoken or brusque. His direct style and condemnations did not gain him much support in the aristocratic societies of pre-World War I in Europe.
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  • Archdiocese of Atlanta, Georgia; diocese of Des Moines, Iowa; first communicants; Diocese of Great Falls-Billings, Montana; archdiocese of Kottayam, India; pilgrims; Santa Luċija, Malta; Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri; Archdiocese of Zamboanga, Philippines
Canonized date
  • 1954-05-29
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Birthplace
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  • Holy Father
term start
  • 1903-08-05
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Birth Date
  • 1835-06-02
Deathplace
death place
  • Apostolic Palace, Rome
Other
  • Pius
venerated in
Name
  • Pope Saint Pius X
ImageSize
  • 125
Caption
  • Pope Pius X after his election
feast day
  • --09-03
  • --08-21
English Name
  • Pope St.Pius X
deathstyle
Dead
  • dead
Birth Place
  • Riese, Italy
Title
Titles
  • Pope, Confessor
term end
  • 1914-08-20
death date
  • 1914-08-20
beatified date
  • 1951-06-03
canonized by
  • Pope Pius XII
papal name
  • Pope Pius X
Successor
Before
Years
  • 1893
  • 1903
After
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  • Your Holiness
Birth name
  • Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto
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  • Pxsig.jpg
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  • Pope Pius X ( Latin: Pius PP. X) (June 2 1835 — August 20 1914), born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was Pope from 1903 to 1914, succeeding Pope Leo XIII (1878–1903). He was the first Pope since the Counter-Reformation Pope Pius V (1566–72) to be canonized. Despite this, the legacy of Pius X's pontificate remains controversial among socialists, liberals and modernists.
  • Pope Pius was a Marian Pope, whose encyclical Ad Diem Illum expresses his desire through Mary to renew all things in Christ, which he had defined as his motto in his first encyclical. Pius believed that there is no surer or more direct road than by Mary to achieve this goal. Pius X was the only Pope in the 20th century with extensive pastoral experience at the parish level, and pastoral concerns permeated his papacy; he favoured the use of the vernacular in catechesis. Frequent communion was a lasting innovation of his papacy. Pius X, like Pope Pius IX, was considered by some to be too outspoken or brusque. His direct style and condemnations did not gain him much support in the aristocratic societies of pre-World War I in Europe. His immediate predecessor had actively promoted a synthesis between the Catholic Church and secular culture; faith and science; and divine revelation and reason. Pius X defended the Catholic faith against popular 19th century views such as indifferentism and relativism which his predecessors had warned against as well. He followed the example of Leo XIII by promoting Thomas Aquinas and Thomism as the principal philosophical method to be taught in Catholic institutions. Pius opposed the theological school of thought known as modernism, which claimed that Roman Catholic Dogma itself should be modernized and blended with nineteenth century philosophies. He viewed modernism as an import of secular errors affecting three areas of Roman Catholic belief: theology, philosophy and dogma. Personally, Pius combined within himself a strong sense of compassion, benevolence, poverty, but also stubbornness, and a certain stiffness. He wanted to be pastor and was the only pope in the 20th century who gave Sunday sermons every week. His charity was extraordinary, filling the Vatican with refugees from the 1908 Messina quake, long before the Italian government began to act on its own. He rejected any kind of favours for his family; his brother remained a postal clerk, his favourite nephew stayed on as village priest, and his three sisters lived together close to poverty in Rome. He often referred to his own humble origins, taking up the causes of poor people. I was born poor, I have lived poor, and I wish to die poor. Considered a holy person by many, public veneration of Pope Pius began soon after his death. Numerous petitions resulted in an early process of beatification.
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