Bishop, Patriarch of Venice, Cardinal, Pope and Patron of Pilgrims Feast Day: August 21

Pope St. Pius X is currently the only canonized saint who belonged to the Order of the Holy Sepulchre. He was Grand Master. In his apostolic Letter “Quam Multa” dated October 13, 1908, he consolidated the position of the Order in the Holy Land and reserved for himself and his successors the office of Grand Master. He gave the Knights a place in the papal chapels and appointed the Latin Patriarch to be Rector and Perpetual Administrator of the Order.

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On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII defined as a truth revealed by God that the Immaculate Mother of God, Mary ever Virgin, when the course of her life on earth was finished, was taken up body and soul into heaven. Such is the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin.

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While Jesus was in Galilee, about one year before His Passion, He manifested His glory to three of His most beloved disciples—the same who were afterward witnesses of His Agony in the Garden: Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, James and John. He led them to the summit of Mount Tabor, as it is generally believed—this mountain, situated in Galilee, best answering the description of the evangelists.

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