Pope Pius XII
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Pope Pius XII was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 2 March 1939 until his death on 9 October 1958. Pius reigned as pope during a highly consequential 19 years that includ
Pius XII, c. 1951
Pio XII Luis Fernández Laguna 1958
Eugenio Pacelli at the age of six in 1882
Pacelli on the day of his ordination: 2 April 1899
Assumption of Mary
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The Assumption of Mary is a Catholic dogma that Mary, at the end of her earthly life, was taken body and soul into heaven, defined by Pope Pius XII on 1 November 1950 in his apostolic constitution Mun
Pope Pius XII
…communism are to be excommunicated as apostates from the Christian faith. He explicitly invoked ex cathedra papal infallibility with the dogma of the Assumption of Mary in his Apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus. His forty-one encyclicals include Mystici Corporis Christi, on the Church as the Mystical Body…
A famous treatment in Western art, Titian's Assumption, 1516–1518
Memorial in Youghal, Ireland, to the promulgation of the dogma of the Assumption
Parma Cathedral, Illusionistic dome, Correggio, 1526–1530
Pope Pius XII in 1950 proclaiming the dogma of the Assumption of Mary