ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 21st August WELCOME! SAINT PIUS X., POPE ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Saint Pius X was born Giuseppe Sarto in 1835 in the village of Riese in the province of Venice. After he became a priest he performed his duties with distinction. A man of humble origins, he became bishop of Mantua and patriarch of Venice, and was elected pope in 1903. He took as the motto of his reign “to renew all things in Christ”. He worked out a new catechism and promoted Eucharistic communion for children, considering participation in holy mysteries an indispensable basis for a true Christian life. He fulfilled this task in the spirit of simplicity, poverty, and courage, arousing the faithful to a Christian way of life and waging constant warfare against the errors of his age. He died August 21, 1914. PRAYER: O God, who to safeguard the Catholic faith and to restore all things in Christ, filled Pope Saint Pius the Tenth with heavenly wisdom and ap...