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19 unusual facts about Pope Pius XII


Al-Mujaydil

However, in 1950, after intervention from the Pope Pius XII, the Christians of the village were offered the opportunity to move back to the village, but refused to do so without their Muslim neighbours.

Christ of Havana

The statue was built from 67 blocks of marble that had been brought from Italy after being personally blessed by Pope Pius XII.

Congregation of Divine Providence

Driven into exile during the French Revolution, in 1793 he succumbed to typhus contracted while nursing fellow refugees, and was beatified by Pope Pius XII in 1954.

Congregation of Windesheim

The revival of the congregation was proposed under the pontificate of Pope Pius XII, by Father Carl Egger.

Edward Kessler

He has expressed opposition about any imminent beatification/canonisation of Pope Pius XII.

History of Buda Castle

Famous guests entertained by Horthy in the palace were King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy in 1937 and Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII) in 1938.

Jungian interpretation of religion

(This analysis prompted Jung to send a congratulatory note to Pope Pius XII in 1950 upon the adoption of the doctrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to wit completing the quaternity.)

Kielce pogrom

On September 14, 1946, Pope Pius XII gave an audience to Rabbi Phillip Bernstein, the advisor on Jewish affairs to the U.S. European theater of operations.

Lascia o raddoppia?

Pope Pius XII was known to be a great fan of Lascia o Raddoppia.

Laugh? I Nearly Bought One!

Contrary to popular belief, the priest in the picture is not Pope Pius XII, but German Nazi abbot Alban Schachleiter.

Mirko Vidović

Due to the practical concerns of religious service of his faith, Vidović soon came into conflict with the contemporary Youth Committee of the SKBiH: his public act of grief for the death of the Pope Pius XII brough him he conviction of ten days in prison.

Modesty

Pope Pius XII stated that women should cover their upper arms and shoulders, that their skirts should cover at least as far as the knee, and the neckline should not reveal anything.

Quebec Autoroute 30

A-530 features two interchanges, one at boulevard Pie XII and the other at Route 201.

Resistance during the Holocaust

Although Pope Pius XII did not publicly speak out against the murder of the Jews during the Holocaust, the Vatican did take action to save many Jews in Italy from deportation, including sheltering several hundred Jews in the catacombs of St. Peter's Basilica.

Roger Mudd

In his memoir The Place to Be, Mudd describes an incident from his first day at WRNL in which he laughed hysterically on-air after mangling a news item about the declining health of Pope Pius XII.

Runnymede, Toronto

James Culnan was a trustee for 37 years, until his death in 1964, and was knighted by Pope Pius XII in 1957 in honour of his work with the Metropolitan Separate School Board, today the Toronto Catholic District School Board.

Supreme Order of Christ

They suspected that the snub was revenge for his inadvertent causing of a diplomatic incident between Pope Pius XII and Joseph Stalin in 1950, when he revealed Pius's private belief that communism was likely to collapse and his views on Stalin, during a press conference after a papal audience.

Controversially Popes Pius XII and John XXIII had refused to award the honour to his predecessor, Seán T. O'Kelly, to the fury of the Irish government.

The Catholic Church and the Holocaust

Harvard professor Stanley Hoffmann considered it "a comprehensive and deeply disturbing volume" which "describes in detail Pope Pius XII's preference for quiet diplomacy with Hitler and his regime, his anxiety about the Catholic Church's fate, his solicitude for Germany's Catholics, and his conviction that communism posed a greater threat than did Nazism".


Actes et documents du Saint Siège relatifs à la Seconde Guerre Mondiale

Actes et Documents du Saint Siège relatifs à la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (French for Acts and Documents of the Holy See related to the Second World War), often abbreviated Actes or ADSS, is an eleven-volume collection of documents from the Vatican historical archives, related to the papacy of Pope Pius XII during World War II.

Alfredo Ottaviani

At the Vatican they encountered Monsignor Alphonso Carinci and Cardinal Augustin Bea, Pope Pius XII's confessor, who advised presenting the typed manuscript directly to Pope Pius XII, through a recommended intermediary, which was accomplished in 1947.

Alice Bunker Stockham

On October 29, 1951 in his "allocution to midwives", Pope Pius XII citing Pope Pius XI's Encyclical Casti Connubii of December 31, 1930 declared

Amen.

The film is based on a 1963 play by Rolf Hochhuth, The Deputy, a Christian Tragedy, which was widely attacked in Catholic and Jewish circles for its unrealistic portrayal of Pope Pius XII.

Angelo Dell'Acqua

In 1954, then Monsignor Dell'Acqua received a phone call from an ill Pope Pius XII, who was suffering from gastric problems, and quickly called for the latter's physician, Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

Prior to the outbreak of World War II, McCormick obtained interviews with Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, German leader Adolf Hitler, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill, President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, Popes Pius XI and XII, and other world leaders.

Anthony Stevens-Arroyo

He is also a staunch traditionalist Roman Catholic who has publicly espoused the proposed controversial canonizations of Queen Isabella of Spain and Pope Pius XII.

Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association

CPCA, which was founded eight years later, thus does not recognize the proclamation of the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Pope Pius XII in 1950, canonizations from 1949 onward (e.g. the canonization of Pope Pius X), Vatican declarations on even well-established devotional piety (e.g. on the Sacred Heart of Jesus or on Mary as Queen), and the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965).

Clément Roques

He served as Archbishop of Rennes from 1940 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.

Corcovado Rack Railway

The line has been ridden by many famous people, including Pope Pius XII, Pope John Paul II, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Albert Einstein and Diana, Princess of Wales.

Divino Afflante Spiritu

Divino Afflante Spiritu ("Inspired by the Holy Spirit") is a Papal encyclical letter issued by Pope Pius XII on September 30, 1943 calling for new translations of the Bible from the original languages, instead of the venerable Latin Vulgate of St Jerome, revised multiple times, which had formed the textual basis for all Catholic vernacular translations until that time.

Enrico Berlinguer

After the surprising opening of 1970 toward conservatives, and the still discussed proposal of the Historic Compromise, he published a correspondence with Monsignor Luigi Bettazzi, the Bishop of Ivrea; it was an astonishing event, since Pope Pius XII had excommunicated the Communists soon after World War II, and the possibility of any relationship between communists and Catholics seemed very unlikely.

Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland

When the contents of Article 44 were put to Pope Pius XI by Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII), the pope stated in diplomatic language: "We do not approve, nor do we not disapprove – we will remain silent".

Francis Edward Hyland

On October 15, 1949, Hyland was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Savannah-Atlanta, Georgia, and Titular Bishop of Gomphi by Pope Pius XII.

John E. Swift

In 1950, after a Special Audience with Pope Pius XII, Swift instituted a fund for the purchase and construction of the last playground in Rome.

John J. McEleney

On February 3, 1950, McEleney was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Jamaica and Titular Bishop of Zeugma by Pope Pius XII.

José María Caro Rodríguez

On August 28 of that same year, Pope Pius XII made him Archbishop of Santiago and thus Primate of the Church in Chile.

Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt

On December 28, 1941, Arteaga was appointed Archbishop of Havana and thus Primate of the Church in Cuba by Pope Pius XII.

He served as Archbishop of Havana from 1941 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.

Miklós Horthy

The Horthys lived there for four years, supported financially by ambassador John Montgomery, his successor, Herbert Pell, and by Pope Pius XII, whom he knew personally.

Morris DeHaven Tracy

Morris DeHaven Tracy was a prominent journalist of the 1920s and 1930s, who covered for the United Press wire service many of the important stories of the day, such as the Scopes Evolution Trial, the election of Pope Pius XII, and the tour of Canada of the then Prince of Wales.

Ossip Gabrilowitsch

Through the intervention of the nuncio to Bavaria, Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII), Gabrilowitsch was freed from jail, and then he headed to Zürich and the United States.

Papal coronation

Popes Pius IX, Pius XII, John XXIII, and Paul VI all were crowned in public on the balcony of the basilica, facing crowds assembled below in St. Peter's Square.

Prince-Bishopric of Warmia

In 1946 he received "Special Authority as Bishop for the Deported Germans" from Pope Pius XII.

Richard Henry Ackerman

Upon the Silver Jubilee of his priestly ordination in 1951, he was presented with the Grand Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice by Pope Pius XII.

Rudolf Rahn

In the early 1970s Rahn sent a letter to Robert A. Graham, one of the editors of the Acts and Documents of the Holy See related to the Second World War, which was published in 1991 by the Italian magazine 30 Giorni, stating that a German plot to kidnap Pope Pius XII had existed, but that all documents relating to it had been destroyed or lost.