Pope Pius the Tenth

Pope Pius the Tenth

Pope Pius the Tenth[Transcriber's note: First published 1918; second edition 1919; third edition 1924; fourth edition entitled...
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Author: Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice),1869-1936
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Pope Pius the Tenth

Pope Pius the Tenth

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Pope Pius the Tenth

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Author: Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice),1869-1936
Format: eBook
Language: English

Pope Pius the Tenth

[Transcriber's note: First published 1918; second edition 1919; third edition 1924; fourth edition entitled Pope Saint Pius the Tenth, unchanged in content except for anonymous postscript referring to canonization of Pope Pius X (omitted here), 1954] Giuseppe[*] Melchior Sarto was the eldest of the eight surviving children of Giovanni Battista Sarto, the municipal messenger and postman of Riese, and his wife Margherita. They were poor people, and it was difficult sometimes to make both ends meet. The daily fare was hard and scanty, and the future pope was clothed, as an Italian biographer puts it, "as God willed." But both Giovanni Battista and his wife came of a hard-working, God-fearing stock, who could endure manfully and suffer patiently, and who taught their children to do the same. Little Bepi was remarkable both for his intelligence and for his restless activity. The village schoolmaster, who at once singled him out as a pupil worth cultivating, was, we are told, not infrequently obliged to use means more persuasive than agreeable to calm his vivacity. Indeed, the seraphic element in Bepi seems to have been considerably leavened by that of the human boy. "That little rascal!" exclaimed an old inhabitant of Riese when he heard of Cardinal Sarto's elevation to the papacy, "Many a cherry of mine has found its way down his throat!" ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 35953
Author: Forbes, F. A. (Frances Alice)
Release Date: Apr 25, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

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