100th anniversary of death of St. Pope Pius X yesterday

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Actually was his feast day yesterday. I believe he passed away on August 20.

Checked some blogs as well as Vatican website. No major celebration took place to commemorate death. No mention of the saint at all-- not a peep. I wonder why.
 
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RosslynV said:
Actually was his feast day yesterday. I believe he passed away on August 20…
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According to my Catholic Wall Calendar, which I got from the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer (papastronsay.com/bookshop/index.php), his death occurred August 20th and his Feast in the new Calendar is August 21st & September 3rd in the Old Calendar.

I think that Pope St Pius X is seen as a “Controversial Pope” and may not be popular partly due to his unwavering stance on Modernism & concepts of this & his character, among those of us attending FSSP, or other Traditionalist Parishes there will usually be more commemoration. Probably also in Churches named after him, I’d imagine.
 
He was a great patron for the restoration of Gregorian chant to its ancient melodies and very much supported Solesmes in its study of ancient manuscripts. He is responsible for sponsoring the Vatican Edition of the Roman Gradual in 1908, the definitive chant book for the Mass (and still the basis of the post-Vatican II Graduale Romanum). In fact the second reading yesterday for Vigils (Office of Readings) in the Monastic Lectionary was a letter from His Holiness to Dom Delatte, abbey of Solesmes, thanking Solesmes for its work in the field.

Those of us who love Gregorian chant owe a debt of gratitude to him!
 
I have a great fondness for St. Pius X (just look at my avatar – it is his papal shield :)).

It would be hard to speculate on why the Vatican did not do such-and-such celebration. With the long history of the Church and all the great saints, every day is a milestone for something. 😛

It does seem like the centenary of his death would be something significant enough that some recognition could have been made. I wouldn’t read into it as being some slight against him, though. He was, after all, the first pope in hundreds of years to be canonized. I think he is held in pretty high esteem.
 
Sonny89 said:
Peace and all Good!

I think that Pope St Pius X is seen as a “Controversial Pope” and may not be popular partly due to his unwavering stance on Modernism & concepts of this & his character, among those of us attending FSSP, or other Traditionalist Parishes there will usually be more commemoration. Probably also in Churches named after him, I’d imagine.
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I find this very sad, but believe there is merit to your comments. A saint is a saint because of displaying heroic virtue. Regardless of the non-recognition, his status in heaven is secured and all worried about the state of the Church today should continue to petition him. I love his writings!
 
Pope St. Pius X was truly a humble and great pope.

We owe to him the lowering of the age for First Holy Communion and the encouragement to receive Holy Communion frequently.
 
Until recently, Pope St Pius X was the only pope in nearly 400 years canonized. The previous one was Pope St Pius V.

Pope St Pius X pray for us

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Thank you for posting those links.

I’ve been keeping up with the commemoration of St. Pius’ Promotion to Glory (death) by watching the activities done in his hometown of Riese. ( in Veneto.) All kinds of radio and TV shows in Veneto, Treviso County, and his home Riese. The mayor of Riese went to the Vatican and personally invited Pope Francis to come to Riese and visit, but the guy never came at all. At any date.😦 He sent his secretary of State, Peter Parolin, to celebrate a mass there on Aug 21 or 23, I forgot the date.

If you think this wonderful Catholic Christian was snubbed by the Vatican, you should have seen what they did to him in 1964. On his fiftieth Anniversary of death, they had a tiny three by three column of news talking about him. Period. This I read, somewhere, but I remembered it. Being eleven years old at the time, I had no access to The Roman Observer

Pope St. Pius X (Joseph Sarto) had a sister called Theresa Sarto, and she married a guy called John Parolin. They had ten little Parolins. I wonder if the Secretary of State is a relative. The Riese people did not say he was, so I guess the surnames are a coincidence.

Check this out: fondazionegiuseppesarto.itTrouble is most of it is in Italian. (These danged foreign saints!) I use Google translate a lot when I research St. Giuseppe Sarto.
 
One thing more: I live in drab old Santa Fe, New Mexico. In our newspaper, I read about the two Americans being released from the Center for Disease Control, having been cured of the Eubola virus. I was so thrilled these people were free, and that there might be hope for victims of this horrible disease.

The representative of the Center for Disease Control said, “Today is a miraculous day.” I checked the day he had referred to, and it was St. Joseph Sarto’s feast day, Aug 21st! I could just imagine this man, who had worked through a cholera epidemic in Salzano, where he’d been Vicar, yelling over to God in Heaven, Hey God! Eubola! Eubola!

With Cholera, people die a gross, disgusting death in three days. I will not go into details. Sarto had to go into some really disgusting rooms to give these poor patients the last rites. he also helped carry coffins and dig graves for the dead. Horrible time.

Eubola is even grosser, (you KNOW the details), but I have a feeling Joseph Sarto is really, really pulling for these people.
 
Sonny89 said:
Peace and all Good!

According to my Catholic Wall Calendar, which I got from the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer (papastronsay.com/bookshop/index.php), his death occurred August 20th and his Feast in the new Calendar is August 21st & September 3rd in the Old Calendar.

I think that Pope St Pius X is seen as a “Controversial Pope” and may not be popular partly due to his unwavering stance on Modernism & concepts of this & his character, among those of us attending FSSP, or other Traditionalist Parishes there will usually be more commemoration. Probably also in Churches named after him, I’d imagine.
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Thanks for the link.🙂
 
St. Pious may or may not be controversial but He is certainly the children’s Pope as he allowed them to receive First Holy Communion at age 7
 
aquafiestas said:
St. Pious may or may not be controversial but He is certainly the children’s Pope as he allowed them to receive First Holy Communion at age 7
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Well for lovers of liturgy he was certainly controversial. His major reform of the Divine Office in 1910 was a big departure from tradition, and he put in place many innovations that set precedents for the current Liturgy of the Hours. Those innovations were no less controversial in his day than the LOTH’s proclamation was in ours.

With the issuance of the Vatican Edition of the Graduale Romanum he also innovated by standardizing Gregorian chant on the Solesmes method, ending a mish-mash of chant styles, and standardizing it with the same basic form as is used in the current 1974 Graduale Romanum.
 
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