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MyPhilomena
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didn’t he have the longest reign of all the popes?
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Joe_Kelley
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Only Saint Peter’s reign is reputed to have been longer, but its length is unknown.
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Genesis315
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One of my favorite saints of all time! Highlights of his pontificate include definitively proclaiming the dogma of the Immaculate Conception and presiding over the First Vatican Council. I actually wrote a prayer to him (well, more like I took John Paul II’s homily beatifying him and massaged it into prayer form 
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O most glorious successor of St. Peter, Blessed Pius IX, faithful servant and vicar of Our Lord Jesus Christ, your life was an example of unconditional fidelity to the immutable deposit of revealed truth. Continue to show us how to give absolute primacy to God and spiritual values. Help us to abandon ourselves to divine Providence, whose sovereign lordship over human events you never doubted. O you who proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, continue to remind us that in the storms of human life the light of Christ shines brightly in the Blessed Virgin and is more powerful than sin and death. Blessed Pius IX, you who weathered hatred, slander, and violence, and never wavered in your mission of service to the Gospel, pray that we may persevere through tribulations and remain on the straight and narrow path to eternal life. Amen.
)O most glorious successor of St. Peter, Blessed Pius IX, faithful servant and vicar of Our Lord Jesus Christ, your life was an example of unconditional fidelity to the immutable deposit of revealed truth. Continue to show us how to give absolute primacy to God and spiritual values. Help us to abandon ourselves to divine Providence, whose sovereign lordship over human events you never doubted. O you who proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, continue to remind us that in the storms of human life the light of Christ shines brightly in the Blessed Virgin and is more powerful than sin and death. Blessed Pius IX, you who weathered hatred, slander, and violence, and never wavered in your mission of service to the Gospel, pray that we may persevere through tribulations and remain on the straight and narrow path to eternal life. Amen.
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