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Pius X
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Pius X in 1903
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Church
| Catholic Church
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Diocese
| Diocese of Rome
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See
| Holy See
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Papacy began
| 4 August 1903
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Papacy ended
| 20 August 1914
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Predecessor
| Leo XIII
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Successor
| Benedict XV
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Ordination
| 18 September 1858
by
Giovanni Antonio Farina
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Consecration
| 16 November 1884
by
Lucido Maria Parocchi
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Created cardinal
| 12 June 1893
by
Pope Leo XIII
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Birth name
| Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto
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Born
| (
1835-06-02
)
2 June 1835
Riese
,
Treviso
,
Lombardy-Venetia
,
Austrian Empire
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Died
| 20 August 1914
(1914-08-20)
(aged 79)
Apostolic Palace
,
Rome
,
Kingdom of Italy
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Previous post
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Motto
| Instaurare Omnia in Christo (Restore all things in Christ)
[1]
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Signature
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Coat of arms
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Feast day
| 21 August
3 September (General Roman Calendar 1955?1969)
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Venerated in
| Catholic Church
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Beatified
| 3 June 1951
Saint Peter's Basilica
,
Vatican City
by
Pius XII
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Canonized
| 29 May 1954
Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
by Pius XII
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Patronage
| Society of Saint Pius X
[2]
Archdiocese of Atlanta, Georgia
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Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa
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First Communicants
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Diocese of Great Falls-Billings, Montana
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Archdiocese of Kottayam, India
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Esperantists
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pilgrims
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Santa Lu?ija, Malta
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Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri
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Archdiocese of Zamboanga, Philippines
; emigrants from
Treviso
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Patriarchy of Venice
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Catechists
;
[4]
St. Pius X Seminary (Dubuque, Iowa)
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Other popes named Pius
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Pope Pius X
(
Latin
:
Pius PP. X
;
Italian
:
Pio X
, 2 June 1835 ? 20 August 1914), born
Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto
, was an
Italian
priest of the
Roman Catholic Church
and the
258th
Pope
from 1903 to 1914.
[5]
He is a
saint
of the Catholic Church,
[6]
well known as being strongly against members of the Catholic Church trying to make it follow modern ideas, a movement called
modernism
.
[7]
Giuseppe Sarto was born in 1835 in
Riese
in the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia. He studied at the
University of Padua
.
[8]
Sarto was
ordained
as a priest on 18 September 1858.
[6]
In 1884,
Pope Leo XIII
made Sarto the
Bishop
of
Mantua
.
[8]
In 1893,
Pope Leo XIII
made Sarto a
cardinal
and the
Patriarch of Venice
.
[6]
On 20 4 August 1903, Cardinal Sarto was elected pope; and he chose to be called Pius X.
[8]
In 1951, he was
beatified
, which is a step in the process of naming a saint of the Catholic Church.
In 1954, he was canonized as a saint.
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