Pope Leo XIII

Born 2 March, 1810, at Carpineto; elected pope 20 February, 1878; died 20 July, 1903, at Rome. Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi was the sixth of the seven sons of Count Lodovico Pecci and his wife Anna Prosperi­ Buzi. There was some doubt as to the...

This golden treatise on The Practice of Humility, edited by TAN, from the pen of the Sovereign Pontiff Pope Leo XIII, comes as a revelation and lifts the veil which hitherto has concealed from view the long years of his comparative seclusion spent in...