Leo XIII presented St. Joseph as a model at a ... To him was entrusted the Divine Child when Herod loosed his assassins against him,” Pope XI continued. “He won for himself the title of ...
Born as: Giovanni de’ Medici (Florence, 1475) A member of the wealthy Medici family, Pope Leo X spent lavishly on ... the father of a future pope, John XI, born from his affair with a Roman ...
Blessed Pius IX’s successor, Pope Leo XIII, went on to dedicate an encyclical letter to devotion to St. Joseph — Quamquam ...