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...Giuseppe Sarto was a poor boy. His father earned 50? a day as municipal messenger and janitor for the Italian town of Riese, near Venice, and his mother made clothes for the local farmers and laborers. When Giuseppe walked the four miles to secondary school and back each day he used to take off his shoes and carry them to save the leather...
...Giuseppe Sarto became assistant parish priest at Tombolo, and he was still poor; in all his nine years there he was never able to buy a full set of vestments. Each evening, after the parish work was done, he would study until midnight or later, then rise at 4 to ring the church bells and open the church door because the sacristan was old and easily tired...
Rise of a Country Priest. The Bishop of Treviso surprised everyone and irritated some by making young Don Sarto a canon-a post hitherto held exclusively by noblemen. In his first speech before the Treviso seminary as its spiritual instructor he said: "I am no professor, just a country priest, whom God has most unaccountably brought among you. Remember that study and knowledge and science, excellent things in themselves, are perverted if they become objects of pride...
...Giuseppe Sarto became Bishop of Mantua, then Cardinal Patriarch of Venice. He was still poor, still giving away his few belongings and launching quixotic business ventures to help his flock. To one visitor he complained that a gold watch he had been given was engraved with the patri archal arms and therefore could not be pawned. When Pope Leo XIII died in 1903 and Cardinal Sarto had to go to Rome for the conclave, he did not have enough money for the railroad fare and the Catholic bank in Venice refused to lend it to him. He got his loan...
...Vatican announced that Giuseppe Sarto, who as Pius X was Pope from 1903 to 1914, will be canonized next May the 78th Pope to achieve sainthood, and the first since 1712.* ¶The Rev. Hubert Thornton Trapp, vicar of London's Anglican Church of St. Mary. Magdalene, challenged the Archbishop of Canterbury to "come out into the open" about Freemasonry. Declaring in his parish magazine that "the Christians' God and the Masons' God are not one and the same . . . the two loyalties are in conflict," he announced that he would bar any clergyman...