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3 days ago · Pope Pius XI (Italian: Pio XI), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (Italian: [amˈbrɔ:dʒo daˈmja:no aˈkille ˈratti]; 31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939), was the Bishop of Rome and supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 to 10 February 1939.
5 days ago · Nearly 400 years after St. Thomas More’s death, Pope Pius XI canonized him. Today he is honored as the patron of lawyers, civil servants and politicians, and is revered as a martyr for the faith. But in 1535, how foolish his peers must have thought him.
6 days ago · In January 1936, almost a month after having created Archbishop Santiago Luis Copello a cardinal, Pope Pius XI decreed that Buenos Aires would be the primatial see, explained the rector of the ...
4 days ago · Pius XI dedicated St. Joseph as protector of the Church against communism. Pope Pius XII instituted the feast of St. Joseph the Worker on May 1. Pope St. John XXIII proclaimed St. Joseph patron of Vatican II.
4 days ago · St. Peter Canisius was simultaneously canonized and declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XI in May of 1925. In a famous saying, the Jesuit priest revealed the secret behind the accomplishments of his energetic and fruitful life: “If you have too much to do, with God’s help you will find time to do it all.”
4 days ago · From the ceiling, the eagle of the papal coat of arms of Pius XI has watched over the only courtroom of the Vatican's small civil tribunal for decades.
2 days ago · In 1923, Pope Pius XI (1922–39) set up a full-fledged Syro-Malabar hierarchy with Ernakulam-Angamaly as the Metropolitan See and Augustine Kandathil as the first Head and Archbishop of the Church.
