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Pius (pī′əs)

  1. (born Enea Silvio de Piccolomini) 1405-64; pope (1458-64)
  2. (born Luigi Barnaba Chiaramonti) 1742-1823; pope (1800-23)
  3. (born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti) 1792-1878; pope (1846-78)
  4. (born Giuseppe Sarto) (1835-1914); pope (1903-14): his day is Aug. 21
  5. (born Achille Ratti) 1857-1939; pope (1922-39)
  6. (born Eugenio Pacelli) 1876-1958; pope (1939-58)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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