Can you name these Saints? Add some more if you've got them.

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), November 30, 2002

Answers

Sorry about the size of St. "X" top left...

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), November 30, 2002.

Pius X, Kolbe, & Terese.

-- jake (jake1@pngusa.net), December 01, 2002.

The bottom right is Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity.

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), December 01, 2002.

The Pope has a very intence look in his eyes. Thanks Emerald. I never saw that one before. Those eyes look like they are for real. What a man. God bless him and you for the picture.

David

-- David (David@excite.com), December 01, 2002.

Hey David, there's some even better ones I have in a book here, but I can't find them anywhere on the net. He looks like a tough guy that won't take any garbage from anyone, but he cried when he was told to become a bishop because he didn't think he was worthy of it. You should see some of these other pictures. Maybe someone else has them.

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), December 01, 2002.

Emerald, Do you know how old the Pope is in that picture? Those eyes impressed me. They look so intense! A picture is worth thousands of words Emerald.

David

-- David (David@excite.com), December 01, 2002.

The one I have that looks similiar to the above is when he was Bishop Guiseppe Sarto (his birth name) and has him listed as 49 years old. There is another good one when he was around 23, just ordained.

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), December 01, 2002.

Here is another, as Pope Pius X, 1903 to 1914.

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), December 01, 2002.

This is Pius IX ("Pio Nono")who reigned from 1846-1878. He's not a saint, yet, but he was an extraordinarily holy Pontiff. Although frought with difficulties, such as the voluntary imprisonment of the popes in the Vatican until 1929, the papacy of Pius IX, called the creator of the modern papacy, was one of extensive growth of the Church. He declared the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1854. He condemned the liberal ideas of the 19th century in his encyclical Quanta Cura (1869), accompanied by the famous Syllabus, which reiterated the condemnation of pantheism, naturalism, socialism, communism, freemasonry, and other doctrinal errors of religious liberalism. He summoned the First Vatican Council and promulgated its decree Pastor Aeternus (1870), in which the nature of the dogma of papal infallibility was defined.

-- jake (jake1@pngusa.net), December 01, 2002.

Pope Saint Pius V (1566-1572) Canonized 1712 by Pope Clement XI (Antonio Michaele Ghislieri 1504-1572) Cardinal Ghislieri was no respecter of persons. He prosecuted eight French bishops for heresy. Moreover, he did not hesitate to oppose even Pope Pius IV to his face when the pope wished to elevate a thirteen-year-old member of the Medici family to the Sacred College of Cardinals. He rebuked the pope again when he wished to subsidize his nephew out of the papal treasury. After his election as pope, Pius V vigorously undertook the task of translating the work of the dogmatic Council of Trent from theory into practice. In 1567 he declared St. Thomas Aquinas a Doctor of the Church and directed that an edition of his works be prepared and printed in seventeen volumes. In sacred music, he was the patron of arguably the Church's finest polyphonic composer, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. In affairs of state, he courageously excommunicated Elizabeth I of England for her schism and savage persecutions of Catholic laymen and priests, the English martyrs. The last great event of his pontificate was the victory at Lepanto of the greatly-outnumbered Catholic forces over the Mohammedan Turks, who threatened to overrun Europe. The saintly pope attributed this victory to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in recognition of which fact, he instituted a new Marian feast, Our Lady of Victory.

-- jake (jake1@pngusa.net), December 01, 2002.

Did you know that Pope St. Pius X was ethnically half Polish? His name, Sarto, is a translation of his father's name, Krawiec, which means Taylor. His father emigrated from Poland.

-- Christina (introibo2000@yahoo.com), December 01, 2002.

Thanks jake; blesseds, saints, venerables, servants of God, its all good. Thanks for the captions too.

Hey, check this out... I didn't know anything about this Blessed Miguel Pro until I came across pictures while browsing around. Look at this one right before his martyrdom:

If someone know how to reduce the picture size, let me know.

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), December 01, 2002.

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-- (emerald1@cox.net), December 01, 2002.

To change the size of the pictures you find on the web:

-Right click on the picture -click "properties" You will see the "size" of the picture (in pixels), along with the url. -if you see the size of an image is, say, 100x100, and you want to enlarge it (double it in size) in your post, the tags would go like this, (with the brackets replaced by the "greater than/less than" signs):

[html] [img src="the url of the picture you want to post"] [height="200" width="200"] [/html]

You just have to play around a bit with height & width numbers. Try it, it's fun!

-- jake (jake1@pngusa.net), December 01, 2002.

Blessed Miguel Pro was quite a guy! He was a priest who went around in secret administering the sacraments when the Church was basically banned in Mexico in the early part of the 20th century. His dying words were "Vivo Christo Rey!"

-- Christina (introibo2000@yahoo.com), December 01, 2002.

Thanks bud; I'll use it.

This man never made it past the Devil's Advocate. They rejected his cannonization because they couldn't figure out whether he was martyred or committed suicide:

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), December 01, 2002.

St. Therese in a play, playing the role of Joan of Arc.

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), December 02, 2002.

St. James the Less, my Patron Saint. Emerald, that picture of St. Therese plaing Joan of Arc was awesome. Thank you for finding & posting it.

-- jake (jake1@pngusa.net), December 02, 2002.

Hi Jake; I had that one in a book, but it took forever to find it on the web. I put in a most strange word search combo to find it.

Keep on adding them bud!

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), December 02, 2002.

St. Faustina; see "The Chaplet of Divine Mercy".

-- Emerald (emerald1@cox.net), January 29, 2003.

St. Pius X, the Eucharistic Pope. When he died at 82 his body became as if he was in his early thirties. God so loved him, he made him look young.

I only wish I could send you some of the pictures I have of many different saints, blesseds, venerables and servants of God from around the world, the U. S. and Mexico. Do you think your readers would be interested?

-- Jorge A. Padilla, Sr. (jpadilla2@rgv.rr.com), August 13, 2003.

One of the pictures is Pope Piusx X

-- India Nyesha Carter (djcarter5@aol.com), March 08, 2005.