Literature
During the pope's lifetime: Monsignor E. Canon Schmitz. Life of Pius X (New York: The American Catholic Publication Society, 1907). Monsignor Hartwell De La Garde Grissell. Sede Vacante: Being a Diary Written During the Conclave of 1903 (Oxford: James Parke and Co., 1903) Monsignor Anton de Waal. Life of Pope Pius X, trans. Joseph William Berg (Milwaukee: The M.H. Wiltzius Company, 1904) Edward Schmidlin. Life of His Holiness, Pope Pius X. (this was an apologetic work intended for American audiences, where criticism of 'popery' was very common in society, and it contained a preface by James Cardinal Gibbons)
After the Pope's death: Mother Frances Alice Forbes, Life of Pius X (New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons, 1918, 2nd ed. 1924) (Merry del Val(see above) considered this work to be the most authoritative written on him) Rene Bazin. Pius X. (St Louis. B. Herder Book Co., 1928) Katherine Kurt Burton. The Great Mantle: The Life of Giuseppe Sarto. (Longmens Press, 1950) Father Francis Beauchesne Thornton. The Burning Flame: The Life of Pius X (Benziger Brothers, 1952) This priest was the editor for Burton's book. Teri Martini. The Fisherman's Ring: The Life of Giuseppe Sarto, The Children's Pope. (St Anthony Guild Press, 1954)
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