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  • SCHUYLKILL HAVEN AT PIUS X, 1 P.M. SATURDAY … Tickets on sale 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday-Friday in Pius athletic office … advance tickets: adults/$6 and students, senior citizens/$3 … all tickets at game $6.

    unknown title 2009

  • The Vatican statement emphasizes that Pius is being evaluated on his “Chrisitan life” rather than the “historical significance of his choices.”

    Pope Benedict XVI Assures Us (Again) That He Comes in Peace After the Beatification of Pope Pius XII « The Blog at 16th and Q 2009

  • Seventy years ago, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, a Roman, was elected Pope with the name Pius XII.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • This council was, therefore, witness to the prompt rehabilitation of papal supremacy, and facilitated, the return of men like Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, who in his youth had taken part in the Council of Basle, but ended by recognizing its erroneous attitude, and finally became pope under the name Pius II.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • In 1939, Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (puh-CHEL'-ee) was elected pope on his 63rd birthday; he took the name Pius the 12th.

    CBS 4: World News Videos 2010

  • In 1917, Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship as President Woodrow Wilson signed the Jones-Shafroth Act. In 1939, Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was elected pope on his 63rd birthday; he took the name Pius the 12th.

    HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News 2010

  • On March 2, 1939, Roman Catholic Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (puh-CHEL'-ee) was elected Pope on his 63rd birthday; he took the name Pius the 12th.

    unknown title 2009

  • The name Pius (which, incidentally, means ` merciful, 'rather than ` pious') reminds one of the story about the schoolboy who learned that the - ous suffix meant ` full of, 'as in righteous and joyous.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 3 1986

  • On this order, the man who in 2002 correctly predicted that the pope succeeding John Paul II would be named Benedict XVI, Ronald L. Conte Jr. believes the next pope will take the name Pius XIII, and that "Peter the Roman" means this pope "will reaffirm the authority of the Roman Pontiff over the Church; this authority is based on his place as a Successor of Peter" and "will emphasize the supremacy of the Roman Catholic Faith and the Roman Catholic Church above all other religions and denominations, and its authority over all Christians and all peoples of the world."

    ROR Sitemap for http://www.raidersnewsnetwork.com 2009

  • 1936, Pius XII Then-Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli visited the U.S. in 1936, three years before he was elected pope and took the name Pius XII.

    Popes in America 2008

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