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Early life of Pope Pius XII
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII was born March 2,1876, to Filippo and Virginia (nee Graziosi) Pacelli, in Rome. His grandfather, Marcantonio Pacelli, had been minister of finance for Pope Gregory XVI and minister of foreign affairs under Pius IX from 1851 to 1870.
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