His Holiness Ven. Pope Pius IX King of Rome (1846 – 1878) "Guard the Church I loved so well and sacredly." -The last words spoken by His Holiness Venerable Pope Pius IX, as recorded by the Cardinals who were kneeling at his bedside.

"You must indeed especially see to it that the faithful themselves have firmly fixed in their minds that dogma of our most holy religion, namely, the absolute necessity of the Catholic Faith for obtaining salvation . . . that dogma received from Christ and inculcated by the Fathers and the Councils, which is found in the formulas of Profession of Faith in use among the Latins and the Greeks and other oriental Catholics...." - Words of His Holiness Pope Pius IX from His Encyclical NOSTIS ET NOBISCUM (ON THE CHURCH IN THE PONTIFICAL STATES, December 8, 1849) Bookmark this site © StGemma.com Web Productions Inc. 2005-Present. All rights reserved.