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Pius V

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Pius V, Saint. Originally Antonio Ghislieri. 1504-1572.
Pope (1566-1572). A leading figure of the Catholic Reformation, he excommunicated Elizabeth I of England.
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Noun1.Pius V - Italian pope from 1566 to 1572 who led the reformation of the Roman Catholic Church; he excommunicated Elizabeth I (1504-1572)
Antonio Ghislieri


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Some time after my arrival in Flanders news came of the league that his Holiness Pope Pius V of happy memory, had made with Venice and Spain against the common enemy, the Turk, who had just then with his fleet taken the famous island of Cyprus, which belonged to the Venetians, a loss deplorable and disastrous.
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