Pope Pius X
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Pope St. Pius X , né Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto (born 1835-06-02 in in Riese, Italy; died 1914-08-20 in Vatican City), was 257th Pope — the Bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914.
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- We cannot prevent Jews from going to Jerusalem, but we can never sanction it. Jews have not recognized our lord, therefore we cannot recognize the Jewish people. They had ample time to acknowledge Christ's divinity without pressure, but they didn't. Should the Jews manage to set foot on the once promised old-new land, the missionaries of the Church would stand prepared to baptize them. Jerusalem cannot be placed in Jewish hands.
- To Theodor Herzl in 1904, at a meeting in the Vatican. [1][2][3]
