Pope Pius X

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Pope Saint Pius X, born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto (June 2 1835 – August 20 1914), was Pope from 1903 to 1914, succeeding Pope Leo XIII. He was the first pope since the Counter-Reformation Pope St. Pius V to be canonized. Despite this, the pontificate of Pope St. Pius X was one of the more controversial of modern papacies. Nevertheless, he is considered by many to have been one of the greatest Pontiffs ever to reign.

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Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto was born June 2 1835 in Riese, Province of Treviso, in Venice, Italy. He was the second born of ten children of Giovanni Battista Sarto (1792-1852) and Margarita Sanson (1813-1894). He was baptized June 3 1835. Giuseppe's childhood was one of poverty, being the son of the village postman (his father) and seamstress (his mother).

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