Vintage First Class Relic Pope Pius X Catholic Theca W/ Wax Seal & Documents
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| Country/Region of Manufacture: Italy |
This is a fairly rare first class relic of Pope Pius X. It is inexcellent condition with the crimson thread and seal intact. It comes with itspaperwork. As per custom the auction is for the theca, the relic is a gift. Shippingis included in the auction. Pope St. Pius X (Confessor, Reformer, Pope of the Eucharist) Giuseppe MelchiorreSarto was born in Riese, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire (now Italy, province of Treviso)in 1835 as the second born ...of ten children of Giovanni Battista Sarto(1792–1852) and Margarita Sanson (1813–1894).Giuseppe had threebrothers and six sisters. He rejected any kind of favours for his family; hisbrother remained a postal clerk, his favourite nephew stayed on as villagepriest, and his three single sisters lived together close to poverty in Rome, in the same way as other people of the same humble background lived.On 18 September 1858, Sarto was ordained a priest, and became chaplain at Tombolo. On 10November 1884, he was appointed bishop of Mantua by Leo XIII. On 4August 1903, Sarto was elected to the pontificate. Pius X promoted daily communionfor all Catholics. In his 1904 encyclical Ad diem illum, he views Mary in the context of "restoring everythingin Christ."In addition to thepolitical defense of the church, liturgical reforms, anti-modernism, and thebeginning of the codification of canon law, the papacy of Pius X saw thereorganisation of the Roman Curia. He also sought to update the education ofpriests, seminaries and their curricula were reformed.Other than the storiesof miracles performed through the pope's intercession after his death, thereare also stories of miracles performed by the pope during his lifetime. On one occasion, during a papal audience, PiusX was holding a paralyzed child who wriggled free from his arms and then ranaround the room. On another occasion, a couple (who had made confession to himwhile he was bishop of Mantua) with a two-year-old child with meningitis wroteto the pope and Pius X then wrote back to them to hope and pray. Two dayslater, the child was cured.Cardinal Ernesto Ruffini(later the Archbishop of Palermo) had visited the pope after Ruffini wasdiagnosed with tuberculosis, and the pope had told him to go back to theseminary and that he would be fine. Ruffini gave this story of his cure to theinvestigators of the pontiff's cause for canonization.In 1913, Pope Pius Xsuffered a heart attack, and subsequently lived in the shadow of poor health.In 1914, the pope fell ill on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary (15 August1914), an illness from which he would not recover. He died on 20 August 1914.On 19 May 1944, Pius X'scoffin was exhumed and was taken to the Chapel of the Holy Crucifix in St.Peter's Basilica for the canonical examination. Upon opening the coffin, theexaminers found the body of Pius X remarkably well preserved, despite the fact that he had died 30 yearsbefore and had made wishes not to be embalmed.Following this, theprocess towards beatification began, and investigations by the SacredCongregation of Rites (SCR) into miracles performed by intercessory work ofPius X took place. The SCR would eventually recognize two miracles. The first involved Marie-Françoise Deperras, anun who had bone cancer and was cured on 7 December 1928 during a novena inwhich a relic of Pius X was placed on her chest. The second involved the nunBenedetta De Maria, who had cancer, and in a novena started in 1938, sheeventually touched a relic statue of Pius X and was cured.His beatification tookplace on 3 June 1951 at St. Peter's before 23 cardinals, hundreds of bishopsand archbishops, and a crowd of 100, 000 faithful. During his beatificationdecree, Pius XII referred to Pius X as "Pope of the Eucharist", in honor of Pius X's expansion of therite to children.On 29 May 1954, lessthan three years after his beatification, Pius X was canonized, following theSCR's recognition of two more miracles. The first involvedFrancesco Belsami, an attorney from Naples who had a pulmonary abscess, who wascured upon placing a picture of Pope Pius X upon his chest. The second miracleinvolved Sr. Maria Ludovica Scorcia, a nun who was afflicted with a seriousneurotropic virus, and who, upon several novenas, was entirely cured. Thecanonization Mass was presided over by Pius XII at Saint Peter's Basilicabefore a crowd of about 800, 000 of the faithful and church officials at St.Peter's Basilica. Pius X became the first pope to be canonized since PiusV in 1712. His feast is held on 21 August; 3 September (General RomanCalendar 1955-1969).
