Pope Saint Pius X. Feast Day 3 September.

English: Pope Saint Pius X. 

Portrait taken after his enthronement, August 1903.

Deutsch: Papst Pius X. Offizielles Porträt, 

aufgenommen nach der Inthronisation im August 1903.

Español: El papa Pío X. Retrato oficial, hecho pocos días después de su entronización como papa el 9 de agosto de 1903.

Français: Le pape Pie X. Portrait, 14 août 1903.

Photo: 14 August 1903

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Author: Giuseppe Felici (1839–1923).

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Pope Saint Pius X (Italian: Pio X; born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto;[a] 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 to his death in August 1914. 

Pius X is known for vigorously opposing Modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, and for promoting Liturgical reforms and scholastic theology.

He initiated the preparation of the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive and systemic work of its kind. He is Venerated as a Saint in the Catholic Church. The Society of Saint Pius X, a Traditionalist Catholic fraternity, is named after him.

Pius X was devoted to The Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of Confidence; while his Papal Encyclical “Ad diem illum” took on a sense of renewal that was reflected in the motto of his Pontificate.[4]

He advanced the Liturgical Movement by formulating the principle of “participatio actuosa” (active participation of The Faithful) in his Motu Proprio “Tra le sollecitudini” (1903).

He encouraged the frequent reception of Holy Communion, and he lowered the age for First Communion, which became a lasting innovation of his Papacy.[5]

Like his predecessors, he promoted Thomism as the principal philosophical method to be taught in Catholic institutions. He vehemently opposed various 19th-Century philosophies that he viewed as an intrusion of secular errors incompatible with Catholic dogma, especially Modernism, which he critiqued as the synthesis of every heresy.[6]

Pius X was known for his firm demeanour and sense of personal poverty, reflected by his membership of the Third Order of Saint Francis.[7] He regularly gave Sermons from the Pulpit, a rare practice at the time.[b]

After the 1908 Messina earthquake he filled the Apostolic Palace with refugees, long before the Italian government acted.[7] He rejected any kind of favours for his family, and his close relatives chose to remain in poverty, living near Rome.[7][8] He also undertook a reform of the Roman Curia with the Apostolic Constitution “Sapienti consilio” in 1908.

After his death, a strong cult of devotion followed his reputation for piety and holiness. He was Beatified in 1951 and Canonised in 1954 by Pope Pius XII.[8] A statue bearing his name stands within Saint Peter’s Basilica, and his birth town was renamed Riese Pio X after his death.

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The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Saint Pius X.

   Pope.

   Confessor.

   Feast Day 3 September.

Double.

White Vestments.

Joseph Sarto was born at Riese, a small village in Venetia, Italy, on 2 June 1835, in humble circumstances.

He was, successively, Curate, Parish Priest, Bishop of Mantua, Patriarch of Venice — Offices to which his keen intelligence, hard work, and great piety, caused him to be quickly promoted.

He was elected Pope on 4 August 1903, and took the name of Pius X.

As Chief Pastor of The Church, he displayed untiring self-sacrifice, and great energy; he was an intrepid defender of the purity of Christian Doctrine.

He realised to the full the value of the Liturgy as The Prayer of The Church and the solid basis that it furnishes for the devotion of Christian people.

He worked for the restoration of the Worship of The Church, especially Plainchant, so that Christian people, as he put it, might find beauty in their public Prayer.

He spared no effort to propagate the practice, so great an aid to holiness, of early, frequent, and daily, Holy Communion.

He died on 20 August 1914, and was Canonised on 29 May 1954.

Mass: Extuli eléctum.

Preface: Of The Apostles.