Giuseppe Sarto was born in 1835 to a poor but faithful family in Italy. Giuseppe never understood the importance that was always placed on money. He was very content with what he already had and didn’t want anything more. Giuseppe placed great value on his relationship with God. He held the belief that as long as he had his faith and the love of God, he had everything that he needed.
Giuseppe’s devotion to his faith led him to pursue a career as a priest. He was considered to be a good and kind priest. His selfless nature and modesty earned him a great deal of positive attention. Eventually, Giuseppe was elected Pope. He took the name Pius X.
As Pope, Pius began to share his belief in the importance of the sacrament of Holy Communion. He always felt that going to communion often was one of the ways a person could be closest to God. Pius strongly felt that the younger a person could receive their first communion the better. This just made them that much closer to knowing the full glory of God. Pius enacted a law that made the age of a person’s first communion to be around seven years.
Pius was Pope for eleven years and is remembered with much love and fondness. People who met him often said they felt they had met a saint. He will always be remembered for his simplicity and poverty. Before he died, Pius was heard to say, “I was born poor and I will die poor.” He was made a saint in 1954-forty years after his death.
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