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Bd Pius IX

255th Pope of the Catholic Church. Pontificate 1846 - 1878. Opened First Vatican Council; lost the Papal States to Italy. Longest serving pope in history. The Pope defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, meaning that Mary was conceived without original sin.

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