In this chair
St. Pius X. Lowered the age of First Communion. Fought modernism. His body is among the incorrupt.
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Pope St. Pius the Tenth
Bishop of Rome, 1903 – 1914
Signs of this pontificate
Wonders this archive keeps that belong to the years he sat, or that he himself stood before.
RelicChurch-approved
The Body of St. Pius X
St. Peter’s Basilica, VaticanDied 1914; exhumed 1944
The pope of frequent Communion and of Pascendi. Exhumed in 1944, the body was found in a remarkable state of preservation. He lies under an altar in the Presentation chapel, the face a silver mask.
EucharisticSacred Scripture
The Eucharist
Upper Room, Jerusalem — and every altar sincefrom the Last Supper
The one Catholic “miracle” that happens quietly, daily, without spectacle: bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ. Spectacular Host-wonders are footnotes to this.