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    Pope Pius XI (Italian: Pio XI), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (Italian: [amˈbrɔ:dʒo daˈmja:no aˈkille ˈratti]; 31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939), was...
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    pontificate did Pius XII hold a consistory to create new cardinals, in contrast to Pius XI, who had done so 17 times in as many years. Pius XII chose not...
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  • Popes Pius XI and Pius XII preached against racism and war in encyclicals such as Mit brennender Sorge (1937) and Summi Pontificatus (1939). Pius XI condemned...
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  • The Pius XI Medal is an award presented every second year by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences to a promising scientist under the age of 45. 1939 Corneille...
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  • Pope Pius XI. Pius XI issued 31 papal encyclicals during his reign as pope and was considering one at his death. At the time of his death, Pius XI was...
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    Colegio, en Quito (22 de abril de 1956) | PIUS XII". "Salutari fonti, die III m. Martii, A.D. MCMLVII - Pius PP. XII, Litterae Apostolicae". Vatican (in...
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    Tributes to Pope Pius; The Canberra Times; Oct 10, 1958 Gorsky, Jonathan. "Pius XII and the Holocaust" (PDF). Yad vashem. "Pius XI". Encyclopædia Britannica...
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    origin of these coins. The first version suggests that by the time of Pope Pius XI's death on February 10, 1939, Vatican City had only minted coins of 1937...
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  • fourth century. Pope Pius XI's first encyclical was Ubi arcano Dei consilio of December 1922. Writing in the aftermath of World War I, Pius noted that while...
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    advisor to the Vatican between 1929 and 1954, appointed by Pope Pius XI and retained by Pope Pius XII as the first Director of the Special Administration of...
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