Pope Pius the Tenth (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781533650924)

Pope Pius the Tenth is a classic papal biography by Frances Alice Forbes. In the village of Riese in the Venetian plains was born on the 2nd of June, 1835, a child who was destined to leave his mark on the world's history. Giuseppe Melchior Sarto was the eldest of the eight surviving children of Giovanni Battista Sarto, the municipal messenger and postman of Riese, and his wife Margherita. They were poor people, and it was difficult sometimes to make both ends meet. The daily fare was hard and scanty, and the future pope was clothed, as an Italian biographer puts it, "as God willed." But both Giovanni Battista and his wife came of a hard-working, God-fearing stock, who could endure manfully and suffer patiently, and who taught their children to do the same.

Author: Frances Alice Forbes
ISBN-10: 1533650926
ISBN-13: 9781533650924
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 06/07/2016
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.22d