Pivs IX Pont. 1847 Vatican Silver Medal By Girometti

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Pivs IX Pont 1847 Vatican City Silver Medal By Girometti With Statues of St. Peter (by Giuseppe de Fabris) and St. Paul (by Adamo Tadolini) on high pedestals, placed at the corners of the main steps of St. Peter's Basilica. Engraver Giuseppe Girometti (1779-1851) Metal Silver Weight 32.90 gr. Dimension 42 mm Thickness 5 mm Condition See Picture, 100 % Authentic Blessed Pope Pius IX (May 13, 1792 – February 7, 1878), born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, was the longest reigning Pope in Church history, reigning the Roman Catholic Church from June 16, 1846, until 1878, almost 32 years. During his pontificate, he convened the Ecumenical Council Vatican One in 1869, which decreed Papal infallibility. The Pope defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, meaning that Mary was conceived without original sin. Politically, the pontificate was faced with revolutionary movements not only in Italy but throughout Europe. Initially Pius was very liberal, freeing all political prisoners of his predecessor, and granting Rome a constitutional framework. He turned conservative after assassinations (e.g. of his Minister of the Interior, Pellegrino Rossi), terrorist acts, and the 1848 revolution in Italy, France and Germany. He had to flee Rome in 1848 for a short time and lost the Papal states permanently to Italy in 1870. He refused to accept an Italian Law of Guarantees, which would have guaranteed papal financing through the Italian State. His Church policies towards other countries, such as Russia,Germany and France, were not always successful, due in part, to changing secular institutions and internal developments within these countries. Concordats were concluded with numerous states such as Austria-Hungary, Portugal, Spain, Tuscany, Ecuador, Venezuela, Honduras, El Salvador and Haiti Pope Pius was a deeply revered and even beloved Pope in his time. His appeal for public world-wide support - Peter's Pence - after he became "The prisoner of the Vatican" was sufficient to support the papacy for decades to come. In his Syllabus of Errors, highly controversial at the time, Pius IX stood up against what he considered sies of secular society, especially relativism. He was a Marian Pope, who in his encyclical Ubi Primum defined in Mary as a Mediatrix of salvation. In 1854, he defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, reflecting a long held Catholic faith, that Mary, the Mother of God, was conceived without original sin. In 1862, he convened three-hundred bishops to the Vatican for the canonization of Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan. His most important legacy is the First Vatican Council, which convened in 1869. It discussed an number of issues, defined the dogma of papal infallibility, but had to be interrupted indefinitely as Italian military forces moved towards Rome. The council is considered to have contributed to a strengthening and centralization of the Catholic Church. [1] Pius IX, a most conservative pope is paradoxically considered the first modern pope, as the papacy grew in importance and relevance after the 1870 fall of the Papal States, a process, which began in the last years of his pontificate. He contributed to this development with his impeccable life-style and clear teachings. Pius IX was considered the most beloved and popular pope of the 19th century. [2] Pius IX, who suffered from epilepsy, was beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 3, 2000. His Feast Day is February 7th Pius IX (1846-1878) decided to replace older statues of Sts. Peter and Paul, with the current larger ones on Easter 1847. The statue of St Paul was sculpted in 1838 by Adamo Tadolini (b. Bologna 1788, d. Rome 1868). He had studied in Bologna under the direction of De Maria; in 1813 he came to Rome, like De Fabris, and came to the attention of Canova, the greatest sculptor of the period, who took him into his studio. The statue of St. Paul ... read more

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