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Pope Saint Pius X
Bishop of Rome
Papacy began	4 August 1903
Papacy ended	20 August 1914
Predecessor	Leo XIII
Successor	Benedict XV
Orders
Ordination	18 September 1858 by Giovanni Antonio Farina
Consecration	16 November 1884 by Lucido Maria Parocchi
Created Cardinal	12 June 1893 by Leo XIII
Personal details
Birth name	Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto
Born	(1835-06-02)2 June 1835 Riese, Treviso, Lombardy-Venetia, Austrian Empire
Died	20 August 1914(1914-08-20) (aged 79) Apostolic Palace, Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Previous post	Archpriest of Salzano (1867–75) Chancellor of the Diocese of Treviso (1875–84) Vice-Capitular of Treviso (1879–80) Bishop of Mantova (1884–93) Patriarch of Venice (1893–1903) Cardinal-Priest of San Bernardo alle Terme (1893–1903)
Motto	Instaurare Omnia in Christo (Restore all things in Christ)
Signature
Coat of arms
Sainthood
Feast day	21 August 3 September (General Roman Calendar 1955–1969)
Beatified	3 June 1951 Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City by Pius XII
Canonized	29 May 1954 Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City by Pius XII
Patronage	Society of Saint Pius X Archdiocese of Atlanta, Georgia; Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa; first communicants; Diocese of Great Falls-Billings, Montana; Archdiocese of Kottayam, India; Esperantists;pilgrims; Santa Luċija, Malta; Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri; Archdiocese of Zamboanga, Philippines; emigrants from Treviso; Patriarchy of Venice; Catechists St. Pius X Seminary (Dubuque, Iowa)

Papal styles of Pope Pius X
Reference style	His Holiness
Spoken style	Your Holiness
Religious style	Holy Father
Posthumous style	Saint

Pope Saint Pius X
Pope, Confessor
Born	(1835-06-02)2 June 1835 Riese, Treviso, Italy
Died	20 August 1914(1914-08-20) (aged 79) Apostolic Palace, Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church
Beatified	3 June 1951, Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City by Pope Pius XII
Canonized	29 May 1954, Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City by Pope Pius XII
Feast	21 August 3 September (General Roman Calendar 1955–1969)
Patronage	Archdiocese of Atlanta, Georgia; diocese of Des Moines, Iowa; first communicants; Diocese of Great Falls-Billings, Montana; archdiocese of Kottayam, India; pilgrims; Santa Luċija, Malta; Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Missouri; Archdiocese of Zamboanga, Philippines; emigrants from Treviso; Patriarchy of Venice

Pope Saint Pius X (Italian: Pio), born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, (2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) was head of the Catholic Church from August 1903 to his death in 1914. He was canonized in 1954. Pius X is known for vigorously opposing modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, promoting traditional devotional practices and orthodox theology. His most important reform was to order the codification of the first Code of Canon Law, which collected the laws of the Church into one volume for the first time. He was also considered a pastoral pope, in the sense of encouraging personal holiness, piety and a daily lifestyle reflecting deep Christian values. He was born in the town of Riese, which would later append "Pio X" to the town's name.

Pius X was particularly devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the specific title of Our Lady of Confidence; his papal encyclical Ad diem illum expresses his desire through Mary to renew all things in Christ, which he had defined as his motto in his first encyclical. Pius X believed that there was no surer or more direct road than by the Virgin Mary to achieve this goal. Pius X was the only pope in the 20th century with extensive pastoral experience and implementation at the parish level, which led him to favor the use of the vernacular language in teaching catechesis, while the encouragement for frequent reception of holy communion became a lasting innovation of his papacy. His immediate predecessor, Pope Leo XIII, had actively promoted a synthesis between the Catholic Church and secular culture; faith and science; and divine revelation and reason. Pius X defended the Catholic faith against popular 19th-century attitudes and views such as indifferentism and relativism which his predecessors had warned against as well. He followed the example of Leo XIII by promoting Thomas Aquinas and Thomism as the principal philosophical method to be taught in Catholic institutions. Pius X vehemently opposed modernism, which claimed that Roman Catholic dogma should be modernized and blended with nineteenth-century philosophies. He viewed modernism as an import of secular errors affecting three areas of Roman Catholic belief: theology, philosophy, and dogma.