Pope Pius XII, born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (March 1876 – 9 October 1958), reigned from 2 March 1939 to his death in 1958. Before his election to the papacy, Pacelli served as secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Aff

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