Pope Pius V, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Pope Pius V

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Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1504

Place of Birth: Bosco Marengo, Piedmont, Italy

Date of Death: 01-May-1572

Profession: Catholic priest, cleric, Christians Jehovah’s Witnesses

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Pope Pius V

  • Pope Pius V (17 January 1504 – 1 May 1572), born Antonio Ghislieri (from 1518 called Michele Ghislieri, O.P.), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 January 1566 to his death in 1572.
  • He is venerated as a saint of the Catholic Church.
  • He is chiefly notable for his role in the Council of Trent, the Counter-Reformation, and the standardization of the Roman Rite within the Latin Church.
  • Pius V declared Thomas Aquinas a Doctor of the Church.As a cardinal, Ghislieri gained a reputation for putting orthodoxy before personalities, prosecuting eight French bishops for heresy.
  • He also stood firm against nepotism, rebuking his predecessor Pope Pius IV to his face when he wanted to make a 13-year-old member of his family a cardinal and subsidize a nephew from the papal treasury.By means of the papal bull of 1570, Regnans in Excelsis, Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth I of England for heresy and persecution of English Catholics during her reign.
  • He also arranged the formation of the Holy League, an alliance of Catholic states to combat the advancement of the Ottoman Empire in Eastern Europe.
  • Although outnumbered, the Holy League famously defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.
  • Pius V attributed the victory to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and instituted the feast of Our Lady of Victory.
  • Biographers report that as the Battle of Lepanto ended, Pius rose and went over to a window, where he stood gazing toward the East.
  • "...[L]ooking at the sky, he cried out, 'A truce to business; our great task at present is to thank God for the victory which He has just given the Christian army'."

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