POPE PIUS X (1903 – 1914) THE HOLY Roman Pontiff, Pope Pius X, whom the Church – in the unparalleled outburst of heavenly joy, exultant praise and sublime solemnity which she reserves for the canonization of those whose lives of heroic virtue and God-centered love are her great and shining glory – proclaimed on May 29, 1954, through His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, to be the glorious Pope of our own day, died of a broken heart after a pontificate of eleven years. He had been born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, and he came from the little village...
