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Pius XII meeting with U.S. President Harry Truman and First Lady Bess Truman at the Vatican, 20 May 1956
Pope Pius XII (Italian: Pio XII; born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli; 2 March 1876 – 9 October 1958) served as head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 2 March 1939 until his death. He remains the most recent pope to assume the pontifical name “Pius”
Pope Pius XII visiting Piazza San Giovanni after the bombings of Rome on 13 August 1943
Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli—who would later become Pius XII—standing with Father Leiber after the signing of the Prussian Concordat
Pope Pius XII (Italian: Pio XII; born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli; 2 March 1876 – 9 October 1958) was the head of the Catholic Church and the sovereign of Vatican City from 2 March 1939 until his death. He was the last pope to adopt the pontifical name “Pius”

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