X-Nico

unusual facts about Pius X



Annibale Maria di Francia

On July 11, 1909 he wrote to Pope S. Pius X: "From my youth I have devoted myself to the words of the Gospel: Pray therefore the Lord of the Harvest...In my charitable institutions, orphans, poor, priests and nuns, all pray incessantly to the loving Hearts of Jesus and Mary, to the Patriarch St. Joseph and to the Apostles, that they may provide the Holy Church with numerous and chosen laborers for the harvest of souls".

Gaetano Bisleti

In May and June 1907, when Bisleti was still a Monsignor and Maggiodomo di Sua Santita, the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862-1947) who was in Rome painting a large portrait of Pope Pius X (North American College, Via dei Umilta, Rome), and had painted two portraits of Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val, also completed a portrait of Bisleti, a fact that was recorded in the New York Herald, Sunday, December 27, 1908.

Gérald Lacroix

In 1975 he was accepted at the Pius X Secular Institute and took perpetual vows in 1982.


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Ernest Walter Histed

He also photographed Royal Academicians, leading actors for The Candid Friend and Pope Pius X. Then he returned to New York, and operated a studio on Fifth Avenue.

Gennaro Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte

Pius X created him Cardinal-Priest with effect from November 27, 1911 giving him the title of Santa Maria degli Angeli.

Holy See–Israel relations

In 1917, Pius X's successor, Pope Benedict XV, equally refused to support any concept for a Jewish state.

Michael C. Barber

After attending Saint Pius X Preparatory School in Galt, California, Barber entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1973.

Reform of the Roman Breviary by Pope Pius X

This was effected in the 1920 typical edition of the Missal promulgated by Pius X's successor, Pope Benedict XV.

Riddes

It is one of the six houses for formation for the future priests of The Society of Saint Pius X. The Seminary of Écône was founded in 1970 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, and his tomb can be found there.