Pope Pius X

Pope Saint Pius X was the 257th Pope of the Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914. Pius combined within himself a strong sense of compassion, benevolence, poverty, but also stubbornness, and a certain stiffness. He often referred to his own humble origins, taking up the causes of poor people. "I was born poor, I have lived poor, and I wish to die poor".