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Pope Pius VII (Italian: Pio VII; born Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti; [a] 14 August 1742 – 20 August 1823) was head of the Catholic Church from 14 March 1800 to his death in August 1823. He ruled the Papal States from June 1800 to 17 May 1809 and again from 1814 to his death.
Pope Pius IX was born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti on May 13, 1792, in Senigallia, Italy. [3] He studied at the College of Volterra in Tuscany and was ordained as a priest in 1819. [ 3 ] Throughout the span of his life, Pius IX served as the director of the Roman hospice of San Michele, Bishop of Imola , and Archbishop of Spoleto . [ 3 ]
Pius I's feast day is 11 July. In the Tridentine calendar it was given the rank of "Simple" and celebrated as the feast of a martyr. The rank of the feast was reduced to a Commemoration in the 1955 General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII and the General Roman Calendar of 1960. Church dedicated to St Pius in Zollstock, Germany, with statue of ...
My Dad is the Pope, I would like to live with my family, if only they would become Christian, and I pray that they will." [9] In 1870, as Don Pius Mortara, an ordained Catholic priest, Edgardo Mortara entered a monastery in Poitiers, France [10] and later spoke out in favor of the beatification of Pope Pius IX, calling the pope "my father" once ...
Pope Pius IX approved on 7 February 1847 the unanimous request of the American bishops that the Immaculate Conception be invoked as the Patroness of the United States of America. Beginning in October 1862, the Pope began sending public letters to Catholic leaders in the United States calling for an end to the "destructive Civil War ."
[7] Pope Pius shared the traditional pontifical view that the Papal States were essential to his independence as head of the Catholic Church. [2] He regained some of his popularity during the 1850s, [ 8 ] but the drive for Italian unification, spearheaded by the Kingdom of Sardinia, continued to unsettle him.
Sertum laetitiae (November 1, 1939) is an encyclical from Pope Pius XII to the Catholic Church of the United States of America in memory of the 150th anniversary of the installation of the first American bishop. The encyclical recalls Pope Pius VI, who appointed bishop John Carroll (bishop) of Baltimore in 1789.
Pope Pius XII's response to the Roman razzia (Italian for roundup), or mass deportation of Jews, on October 16, 1943, is a significant issue relating to Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust. Under Mussolini , no policy of abduction of Jews had been implemented in Italy.