Pope Saint Pius V
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- Also known as
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Antonio Ghisleri
Giovanni Michele Ghisleri
Michael Ghisleri
Michele Ghislieri
- Memorial
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30 April
formerly 5 May
- Profile
- Born to impoverished Italian nobility, the son of Paolo Ghislieri and Domenica Augeria.
Worked as a shepherd as a boy.
Received an excellent education in piety and holiness, including a scholastic education from a Dominican friar; he joined the Order in 1518, taking the name Michele.
Studied in Bologna, Italy.
Ordained in 1528 in Genoa, Italy.
Appointed teacher of philosophy and divinity in Genoa.
Professor of theology in Pavia for sixteen years.
Master of novices and prior of several Dominican houses, worked for stricter adherence to the Order's Rule.
Inquisitor in Como and Bergamo, Italy.
Commissary general of the Roman Inquisition in 1551.
On 4 September 1556 Michael was ordained Bishop of Nepi and Sutri against his will.
Inquisitor in Milan and Lombardy in 1556.
Created cardinal on 15 March 1557.
Grand inquisitor on 14 December 1558.
Part of the conclave of 1559.
Bishop of Mondovi, Italy on 17 March 1560.
As bishop, Michael worked to lead his flock with words and examples, and served as a continual messenger encouraging personal piety and devotion to God.
225th pope.
Upon his ascension to the papacy, Pius V immediately faced the task of enacting the reforms of the Council of Trent.
New seminaries were opened, a new breviary, new missal, and new catechism were published; foundations were established to spread the Faith and preserve the doctrine of the Church.
Pius spent much time personally working with the needy.
Built hospitals and used the papal treasury to care for the poor.
Pius faced many difficulties in the public forum, both in the implementation of the Tridentine reforms and interaction with other heads of state.
Created 21 cardinals.
At the time of his death he was working on a Christian European alliance to break the power of the Islamic states.
- Born
- 17 January 1504 at Bosco, diocese of Alessandria, Lombardy, Italy as Antonio Ghisleri
- Papal Ascension
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elected 7 January 1566
crowned 17 January 1566
- Died
- 1 May 1572 in Rome, Italy, apparently of a renal disorder;
buried in the chapel of San Andrea, Saint Peter's basilica, Vatican City
- Beatified
- 1 May 1672 by Pope Clement X
- Canonized
- 22 May 1712 by Pope Clement XI
- Patronage
- Bosco Marengo, Italy
- Images
- Gallery of images of Pope Saint Pius V
- Additional Information
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Catholic Forum
Catholic-Hierarchy.Org
Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, by Salvador Miranda
Catholic Encyclopedia
- Works
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Consueverunt Romani: Call to Prayer, 17 September 1569
Quo Primum: Promulgating the Tridentine Liturgy, 14 July 1570
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