Rafael Merry del Val
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Rafael Merry del Val y Zulueta, was a Spanish Catholic bishop, Vatican official, and cardinal.
Portrait, ca. 1905
Rafael Merry del Val, 1897
Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII), Merry del Val and Nicola Canali at the 1914 signing of the Serbian concordat under a portrait of Pope Pius X.
Cardinal Merry del Val's tomb in the Vatican grottoes, Saint Peter's Basilica.
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
Rafael Merry del Val
…he fostered by personally signing and executing their petitions to the Holy Office. A cause for his canonization was opened in 1953 at the behest of Pope Pius XII. He now has the title Servant of God. He was born as Rafael María José Pedro Francisco Borja Domingo Gerardo de la Santísima Trinidad Merry del Val y…
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