Reference code
IE CA CP/3/16/29
Title
Pope Pius X Beatification / Bound Photographic and Document Volume
Date(s)
- 1951 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
64 pp; 33 cm x 21 cm; bound volume, clipping, printed, manuscript, and photographic print
Name of creator
(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
A bound volume containing documentary material relating to the beatification of Pope Pius X (1835-1914). His beatification took place on 3 June 1951 at St. Peter’s Basilica before twenty-three cardinals, hundreds of bishops and archbishops, and a crowd of over one hundred thousand. Pope Pius X was later canonized on 29 May 1954. The volume includes newspaper clippings, printed ephemera, manuscript transcriptions, commemorative postcards, and press and agency photographs relating to the beatification. The volume is a ‘Richview Account Series Book’ printed by Browne & Nolan in Dublin.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
- Italian