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Obverse Pope Pius X Edge lettering: Pius X Pont. Max. Reverse Maria Edge lettering: Maria Immac. Saint Pius X, born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto (Riese Pio X, June 2, 1835 - Rome, August 20, 1914) was Pope from 1903 to 1914. He is known as the Pope of the Children's Community and a fighter against modernist errors. He was beatified by Pope Pius XII. The same pope canonized Pius X in 1954 in a grand ceremony, which was also intended by Pope Pius XII as an anti-modernist sign. Pius XII lauded Pius X and his administration and protection of the Church. At the canonization, the body of Pius X was on display in St. Peter's of Rome. His body, although not embalmed, was still intact and undamaged after forty years. He is the last canonized pope of the Catholic Church. His memorial is celebrated on August 21 in the Novus Ordo Missae (New Liturgy of 1969); he is still honored in the Tridentine liturgy on September 3 - the feast day originally established by Pius XII - with a festival of the 3rd class.
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