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Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 6:29 PM
Item n°320662459
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Monday, March 7, 2022 at 9:00 AM
- Condition:MNH (**)Giuseppe Sarto (Saint Pius X) was born in Riese, Italy. He was
of strong character and had a natural predisposition for study,
which helped him enter the seminary and respond to his vocation
which he received at a young age. He was ordained a priest and
showed great dynamism and a remarkable ability in relating to
others, thus gaining the admiration of his parishioners and
confreres. He always carried out his pastoral duties with great
dedication and competence, and so it came as no surprise that Pope
Leo XIII appointed him Bishop of Mantua, Italy, in September 1884.
The Pope appreciated his work in the diocese, and so on 12 June
1893, he elevated him to the dignity of cardinal by appointing him
Patriarch of Venice. On 4 August 1903, after four days of voting,
he was elected Pope and took the name Pius X. He carried out his
papal ministry in continuity with the manner of his two immediate
predecessors. In 1907 he promulgated his encyclical, Pascendi
Dominici Gregis, which challenged the doctrines of the modernists.
Pope Pius X showed the same humility and great simplicity in living
out Christian virtues also in the Vatican. It was said that one
could sense his interior peace which could only come from a person
placing his entire life in the hands of God. His motto was
“To restore all things in Christ” and he worked to put
it into practice by reforming the Roman Curia, drafting the new
code of Canon Law, reforming the liturgy, as well as calling for
singing and music in sacred functions, and making the catechism
obligatory for children and adults. In 1914, shortly before he
died, he left what was considered one of the most distinguished
testaments to peace offered to future generations with his
Apostolic Exhortation “Dum Europa”. On 29 May 1954
before a crowd of 800,000, Pope Pius XII presided over the ceremony
of his canonization. The Philatelic and Numismatic Office will
celebrate the centenary of his death with a two euro postage stamp,
which displays the front of his funerary monument, the main work of
Italian sculptor Pier Enrico Astorri, found in St. Peter’s
Basilica in the Vatican.
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