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Pope Pius X

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1903 to 1914, saint

11 dated entries naming Pope Pius X, drawn from 9 separate years between 1835 CE and 1914 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1835June 2 – Pope Pius X (died 1914)source
  • 1850September 29 – Papal bull Universalis Ecclesiae: The Catholic hierarchy is re-established in England and Wales, by Pope Pius IX and future Pope Pius X.source

20th century

  • 1903July 31 – Start of the Papal conclave after the death of Pope Leo XIII. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto was elected on August 4 as Pope Pius X. Pius X's papacy would feature vigorous condemnation of what he termed 'modernists' and 'relativists' whom he regarded as dangers to the Catholic faith (see for example his Oath Against Modernism).source
  • 1903August 4 – Pope Pius X succeeds Pope Leo XIII as the 257th pope.source
  • 1904September 16 – Start of the 1904 Italian general strike, making it the first general strike in Italian history. The strike was called by the Chambers of Labour in several cities in response to killings of striking workers in the preceding weeks. Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti refuses to intervene and this attitude prevents the movement to take revolutionary dimensions while the strike petered out. In response, Pope Pius X gives tacit permission to Catholic candidates to stand in parliamentary to counter the red menace.source
  • 1905June 11 – Pope Pius X promulgates the encyclical Il fermo proposito, which establishes Azione Cattolica as a non-political lay organization under the direct control of bishops. It was established after an earlier similar organization, Opera dei Congressi was disbanded in 1904 because many of its members were siding with modernism. Catholics were allowed by the pope to vote "to help the maintenance of the social order", but without lifting the Non Expedit of 1868 that prohibited Italian Catholics to participate in political elections in the Kingdom of Italy and, by extension, in Italian national political life. (Because of the Catholic opposition to the unification of Italy and capture of the Papal States).source
  • 1906February 11 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos, denouncing the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State.source
  • 1907September 8 – Pope Pius X promulgates the encyclical Pascendi Dominici gregis, opposing modernism in the Catholic Church.source
  • 190829 June – the Apostolic constitution Sapienti consilio, issued by Pope Pius X, brings the Roman Catholic Church in Britain under regular canon law rather than being missionary territory.source
  • 1914August 20 – Pope Pius X (born 1835)source
  • 1914September 3 – Pope Benedict XV (Giacomo della Chiesa) succeeds Pope Pius X.source

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