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Church | Catholic Church |
Papacy began | 7 January 1566 |
Papacy ended | 1 May 1572 |
Predecessor | Pius IV |
Successor | Gregory XIII |
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Ordination | 1528 by Oliviero Carafa |
Consecration | 14 September 1556 by Giovanni Michele Saraceni |
Created cardinal | 15 March 1557 by Paul IV |
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Born | Antonio Ghislieri 17 January 1504 |
Died | 1 May 1572 Rome, Papal States | (aged 68)
Motto | Utinam dirigantur viæ meæ ad custodiendas justificationes tuas ("O that my ways may be directed to keep thy justifications")[1] |
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Sainthood | |
Feast day | 30 April |
Venerated in | Catholic Church |
Beatified | 1 May 1672 Saint Peter's Basilica, Papal States by Pope Clement X |
Canonized | 22 May 1712 Saint Peter's Basilica, Papal States by Pope Clement XI |
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Papal styles of Pope Pius V | |
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Reference style | His Holiness |
Spoken style | Your Holiness |
Religious style | Holy Father |
Posthumous style | None |
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Pope Pius V, OP (Italian: Pio V; 17 January 1504 – 1 May 1572), born Antonio Ghislieri (from 1518 called Michele Ghislieri), was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 January 1566 to his death, in May 1572. He is venerated as a saint of the Catholic Church.[2] He is chiefly notable for his role in the Council of Trent, the Counter-Reformation, and the standardization of the Roman Rite within the Latin Church, known as the Tridentine mass. Pius V declared Thomas Aquinas a Doctor of the Church.[3][4]
As a cardinal, Ghislieri gained a reputation for putting orthodoxy before personalities, prosecuting eight French bishops for heresy. He also stood firm against nepotism, rebuking his predecessor Pope Pius IV to his face when he wanted to make a 13-year-old member of his family a cardinal and subsidize a nephew from the papal treasury.[5]
By means of the papal bull of 1570, Regnans in Excelsis, Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth I of England for heresy and persecution of English Catholics during her reign. He also arranged the formation of the Holy League, an alliance of Catholic states to combat the advancement of the Ottoman Empire in Eastern Europe. Although outnumbered, the Holy League famously defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Pius V attributed the victory to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and instituted the feast of Our Lady of Victory.[6] Biographers report that as the Battle of Lepanto ended, Pius rose and went over to a window, where he stood gazing toward the East. "...[L]ooking at the sky, he cried out, 'A truce to business; our great task at present is to thank God for the victory which He has just given the Christian army'."[5]