On this day, October 9, 1958, the Angelic Shepherd, Blessed Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Giovanni Pacelli), died. In many ways, his passing is something of a watershed moment in making a transition to a ”modern’ Catholic Church with the subsequent election of Pope St. John XXIII, the second ecumenical Vatican Council, and all that connotes.
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Blessed Pius XII, pray for us.