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Pope Leo XIII. (1810–1903)

Leo XIII., Pope (Count Gioacchino Pecci). He was born at Carpineto near Anagni, March 2, 1810; died on July 20, 1903. He was nuncio to Belgium, 1843–45; was made archbishop of Perugia, 1845; cardinal, 1853; supreme pontiff, March 3, 1878. Two of his ‘Encyclical Letters’ are worthy of special mention; viz., that to “All Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops,” etc., on ‘The Condition of Labor’ (1891), and that to “The English People” on ‘Church Unity’ (1895). He is author of a small volume of lyrics in Latin: ‘Lyric Poems [Carmina] of Leo XIII., Supreme Pontiff’ (1883).