St. Pius V: His Life, Times, Virtues and Miracles

Stern, wise, manful, charitable, generous, and courageous, St. Pius V was a stout-hearted defender of the Faith and of Christendom at a period of the greatest crisis in the history of the Church since the Great Schism and the Fall of Rome. He headed the Church with such inestimable vigor and grace that his name can scarcely be left off a list of contenders for the title of the greatest pope in history.

Born in 1504 in Bosco, a town in Lombardy, Italy, Michael Ghisleri was of noble lineage bu...