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PIUS X

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 690 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PIUS

PIUS X . (GIUSEPPE SARTO), elected See also:

pope in 1903, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 2nd of See also:

JUNE

June 1835, of humble parents, at the little See also:

TOWN

town of Riete in the See also:

province of Treviso, See also:

Italy. He studied See also:

THEOLOGY

theology at the episcopal seminaries of Treviso and See also:

PADUA (Lat. Patavium ; Ital. Padova)

Padua, and was ordained See also:

PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest in 1858. For seventeen years he acted as See also:

PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish priest at various small places in See also:

VENETIA

Venetia, until in 1875 he was appointed See also:

CANON

canon of the See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral and See also:

SUPERIOR

superior of the See also:

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

seminary at Treviso. In 188o he refused the bishopric of Treviso, but in 1884, on the See also:

EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express command of See also:

Leo XIII., he accepted that of See also:

MANTUA (Ital. Mantova)

Mantua. On the 12th of June 1893 he was created a See also:

CARDINAL (Lat. cardinalis)

cardinal, and three days later was nominated See also:

PATRIARCH (M.E. and O. Fr. patriarche, Lat. patriarcha, Gr. aarpuipxtis, from srarptu., clan, and apxil, rule)

patriarch of See also:

Venice. In Venice he made himself very popular owing to his piety, his simplicity and geniality, and by his readiness to See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act in See also:

HARMONY (Gr. dpµovia, a concord of musical sounds, dpA'ew to join; &plan midi (sc. TeXvil)

harmony with the See also:

ITALIAN

Italian See also:

government. He succeeded Leo XIII. in his See also:

election to the papal See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair on the 4th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1903.

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