* Grand Cross of the Order of Pius IX of the Vatican-1905

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During the pontificate of Pius IX a strong Ultramontane movement arose against the French Breviaries of 1680 and 1736.

A member of the Franciscan Order, she was beatified by Pope Pius IX in 1848.

* 1854 – In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was born free of original sin.

* Universalis Ecclesiae, a bull of Pope Pius IX that recreated the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England, which had gone underground with the death of the last Marian bishop in the reign of Elizabeth I

Pope Pius IX convened the First Vatican Council that approved the dogma of Pope as the visible head of the church, prime bishop over a hierarchy of clergy and believers

** Blessed Pope Pius IX

The First Vatican Council was convoked by Pope Pius IX on 29 June 1868, after a period of planning and preparation that began on 6 December 1864.

One month later, on 20 October 1870, Pope Pius IX suspended the Council indefinitely.

Moritz Busch recounts that Otto von Bismarck confided that, after the capture of Rome, Pius IX considered leaving Rome and reopening the Council elsewhere:

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The Catholic anti-liberalism was led by Pope Pius IX ; his death in 1878 allowed Bismarck to open negotiations with Pope Leo XIII, and led to the abandonment of the Kulturkampf in stages in the early 1880s.

Although the belief was widely held since at least Late Antiquity, the doctrine was not formally proclaimed until December 8, 1854, by Pope Pius IX in his papal bull Ineffabilis Deus.

When defining the dogma in Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX explicitly affirmed that Mary was redeemed in a manner more sublime.

Part of that earlier Mass was revived in the Mass that Pope Pius IX ordered to be used on the feast and that is still in use.

Pius IX, at the beginning of his pontificate, and again after 1851, appointed commissions to investigate the whole subject, and he was advised that the doctrine was one which could be defined and that the time for a definition was opportune.

It was not until 1854 that Pope Pius IX, with the support of the overwhelming majority of Roman Catholic bishops, whom he had consulted between 1851 – 1853, promulgated the papal bull Ineffabilis Deus ( Latin for " Ineffable God "), which defined ex cathedra the dogma of the Immaculate Conception:

In this sense the dogma of the Immaculate Conception defined by Pope Pius IX is also viewed as a key example of the use of sensus fidelium shared by believers and the Magisterium rather than pure reliance on Scripture and Tradition.

It is doubtful, however, whether he was using the term " conception " in the same sense in which it is used in the definition of Pope Pius IX.

It is admitted that the doctrine as defined by Pius IX.

* 1849 – The French enter Rome in order to restore Pope Pius IX to power.

Pope Pius IX is elected Pope beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy ( not counting St. Peter ).

This was the case throughout the majority of Severn's tenure as Consul, as Pope Pius IX managed to retain a fragile hold on power, relying on a garrison of French troops to control Rome.

While he was in prison, Pope Pius IX sent Davis a portrait inscribed with the Latin words, " Venite ad me omnes qui laboratis, et ego reficiam vos, dicit Dominus ", which comes from Matthew 11: 28 and translates as, " Come to me all ye who labor and are heavy burdened and I will give you rest, sayeth the Lord.

This name, based on the black colour of his cassock, was used to suggest a parallel between him and the " White Pope " ( since the time of Pope Pius V the Popes dresses in white ) and the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples ( formerly called the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith ), whose red cardinal's cassock gave him the name of the " Red Pope " in view of the authority over all territories that were not considered in some way Catholic.

As a result, Pope Pius II gave San Marino some castles and the towns of Fiorentino, Montegiardino and Serravalle.

The earlier acts of Pius VI gave fair promise of liberal rule and reform in the corrupt administration of the Papal States.

As a result of these complications Pius VI was led into a series of half measures which gave little satisfaction to either party: although it is perhaps largely due to him that the Order was able to escape dissolution in White Russia and Silesia ; at only one juncture did he ever seriously consider its universal re-establishment, namely in 1792, as a bulwark against the ideas of the French Revolution ( 1789 ).

In 1820 Pope Pius VII gave him the distinguished post of Vicar-General of His Holiness for the Diocese of Rome.

On one occasion Pius X personally gave communion to a four-year-old English child whom he had gently asked if he knew who was being received in the Eucharist because the child answered ' Jesus '.

In 1463, his fellow humanist Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini, then Pius II, gave him the purely ceremonial title of Latin Patriarch of Constantinople.

On 21 March 1800 as Rome was in the hands of the French, Pius VII was crowned in exile, in Venice, with a papier-mâché tiara, for which ladies of Venice gave up their jewels.

Pope Pius IV gave Giambologna his first major commission, the colossal bronze Neptune and subsidiary figures for the Fountain of Neptune ( the base designed by Tommaso Laureti, 1566 ) in Bologna.

Popes have differed on the use of encyclicals: on the issue of birth control and contraception, Pope Pius XI issued the encyclical Casti Connubii, while Pope Pius XII gave a speech to midwives and the medical profession, clarifying the position of the Church on the issue.

The election of Pope Pius IX gave fresh impulse to the Liberal movement, and on 4 September 1847 Leopold instituted the National Guard – a first step towards the constitution ; shortly after the marchese Cosimo Ridolfi was appointed prime minister.

* Another legend says that at the Council of Trent a Hungarian bishop gave a taste of Tállya wine to Pope Pius IV, who said Summum pontificem talia vina decent – a Latin word play meaning " Tállya wine / This kind of wine is worthy to be on His Holiness ' table!

Pope Leo XIII ( 1810 – 1903 ) condemned secular biblical scholarship in his encyclical Providentissimus Deus ; but in 1943 Pope Pius XII gave license to the new scholarship in his encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu: " extual criticism ... quite rightly employed in the case of the Sacred Books ... Let the interpreter then, with all care and without neglecting any light derived from recent research, endeavor to determine the peculiar character and circumstances of the sacred writer, the age in which he lived, the sources written or oral to which he had recourse and the forms of expression he employed.

In 1960, Pope John XXIII's Code of Rubrics changed the name for that Sunday to " First Sunday of the Passion " bringing the name into harmony with the name that Pope Pius XII gave, five years earlier, to the sixth Sunday of Lent, " Second Sunday of the Passion or Palm Sunday ".

When Maciel visited Rome in 1946, Pope Pius XII expressed a keen interest in the undertaking and gave it his personal blessing.

Pope Pius IX gave him the title of honorary Roman, and he became an aide to the Pontifical Throne.

Official permission to publish was sought on 22 June 1861, and four days later, on 26 June, Pius IX gave his approval for the regulation of L ' Osservatore.

Pope Pius XII protected Ante Pavelić after World War II, gave him " refuge in the Vatican properties in Rome ", and assisted in his flight to South America ; Pavelić and Pius XII shared the goal of a Catholic state in the Balkans and were unified in their opposition to the rising Communist state under Tito.

Pope Pius gave his approbation to the devotion in memory of the Agony of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ ; granting at the same time an indulgence to all the faithful every time they devoutly say the complete Devotion.

His fictional works gave detailed insider accounts of Church history during the reigns of Popes Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI ( The Pilgrim, Three Popes and the Cardinal, Vatican: A Novel ), John Paul I ( The Final Conclave ) and John Paul II ( The Keys of This Blood, Windswept House ).

Pope Pius II ( 1458 – 64 ) later gave him two titles successively, those of Latin Patriarch of Constantinople and Archbishop of Cyprus, neither of which he could convert into real jurisdiction.

Pope Pius IV, in 1562, made the Church of Sant ' Apollinare their central institution ; but they also gave instructions in schools, in the streets and lanes, and even in private houses.