Pope Pius XII
1876 to 1958
5 documented presences
5 places
Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Pope Pius XII across 5 places, from 1886 to 1945. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Pope Pius XII (born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli; 2 March 1876 to 9 October 1958) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 2 March 1939 until his death on 9 October 1958.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Pope Pius XII was documented, and when
1886year
Piazza Veneziaattested
“In 1886, he also was sent to the private school of Professor Giuseppe Marchi, close to the Piazza Venezia.”
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November 1938month
Berlinattested
“Kennedy Sr., which declared that the church regarded compromise with the Third Reich as 'out of the question'." Historian Walter Bussmann argued that Pacelli, as Cardinal Secretary of State, dissuaded Pope Pius XI – who was nearing death…”
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October 1939month
Romeattested
“According to Toland, a lawyer from Munich named Joseph Muller made a clandestine trip to Rome in October 1939, met with Pius XII and found him willing to act as intermediary.”
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October 1939month
Munichattested
“According to Toland, a lawyer from Munich named Joseph Muller made a clandestine trip to Rome in October 1939, met with Pius XII and found him willing to act as intermediary.”
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21 September 1945exact date
Baltimoreattested
“According to Paul O'Shea, "The Nazis demonised the Pope as the agent of international Jewry; the Americans and British were continually frustrated because he would not condemn Nazi aggression; and the Russians accused him of being an age…”
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Places Pope Pius XII is documented in
Baltimore1 presence · 1945Berlin1 presence · 1938Munich1 presence · 1939Rome1 presence · 1939
Piazza Venezia1 presence · 1886
Other places tied to Pope Pius XII in the record
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2 March 1876exact date
Romementioned
“Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli was born on the second day of Lent, 2 March 1876, in Rome into an upper-class family of intense Catholic piety with a history of ties to the papacy (the "Black Nobility").”
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1891year
Romementioned
“In 1891 Pacelli's father sent Eugenio to the Ennio Quirino Visconti Liceo Ginnasio, a state school situated in what had been the Collegio Romano, the premier Jesuit university in Rome.”
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1891year
Ennio Quirino Visconti Liceo Ginnasiomentioned
“In 1891 Pacelli's father sent Eugenio to the Ennio Quirino Visconti Liceo Ginnasio, a state school situated in what had been the Collegio Romano, the premier Jesuit university in Rome.”
source: Wikipedia: Pope Pius XII
1894year
Romementioned
“In 1894, aged 18, Pacelli began his theology studies at Rome's oldest seminary, the Almo Collegio Capranica, and in November of the same year, registered to take a philosophy course at the Jesuit Pontifical Gregorian University and theol…”
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1894year
Jesuitmentioned
“In 1894, aged 18, Pacelli began his theology studies at Rome's oldest seminary, the Almo Collegio Capranica, and in November of the same year, registered to take a philosophy course at the Jesuit Pontifical Gregorian University and theol…”
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2 April 1899exact date
Romementioned
“While all other candidates from the Rome diocese were ordained in the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Pacelli was ordained a priest on Easter Sunday, 2 April 1899, alone in the private chapel of a family friend the Vicegerent of Rome, Fr…”
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1908year
Londonmentioned
“In 1908, Pacelli served as a Vatican representative on the International Eucharistic Congress, accompanying Rafael Merry del Val to London, where he met Winston Churchill.”
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24 June 1914exact date
Sarajevomentioned
“On 24 June 1914, just four days before Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo, Pacelli, together with Cardinal Merry del Val, represented the Vatican when the Serbian Concordat was signed.”
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1915year
Viennamentioned
“In 1915, he travelled to Vienna to assist Raffaele Scapinelli, nuncio to Vienna, in his negotiations with Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria regarding Italy.”
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1915year
Sapienza University of Romementioned
“Almagia had been at the Sapienza University of Rome since 1915 but was dismissed after Benito Mussolini's antisemitic legislation of 1938.”
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1917 to 1929period
Germanymentioned
“Dalin wrote "of the forty-four speeches Pacelli gave in Germany as papal nuncio between 1917 and 1929, forty denounced some aspect of the emerging Nazi ideology".”
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23 April 1917exact date
Sistine Chapelmentioned
“Pope Benedict XV appointed Pacelli as nuncio to Bavaria on 23 April 1917, consecrating him as titular Archbishop of Sardis in the Sistine Chapel on 13 May 1917, the same day as the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fatima, P…”
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23 April 1917exact date
Fátima, Portugalmentioned
“Pope Benedict XV appointed Pacelli as nuncio to Bavaria on 23 April 1917, consecrating him as titular Archbishop of Sardis in the Sistine Chapel on 13 May 1917, the same day as the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fatima, P…”
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23 April 1917exact date
Kingdom of Bavariamentioned
“Pope Benedict XV appointed Pacelli as nuncio to Bavaria on 23 April 1917, consecrating him as titular Archbishop of Sardis in the Sistine Chapel on 13 May 1917, the same day as the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fatima, P…”
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23 June 1920exact date
23 June 1920exact date
10 December 1929exact date
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1932year
14 October 1934exact date
14 October 1934exact date
1938year
26 January 1938exact date
September 1938month
Documented at the same place, the same year
Jean RenoirRome · 1939Princess Ileana of RomaniaMunich · 1939Unity MitfordMunich · 1939Charles LindberghBerlin · 1938Joachim von RibbentropBerlin · 1938Lise MeitnerBerlin · 1938Wilhelm CanarisBerlin · 1938Carol II of RomaniaBerlin · 1938Carl von OssietzkyBerlin · 1938Richard von WeizsäckerBerlin · 1938Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.Berlin · 1938Ralph H. BaerBerlin · 1938
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