ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author talks about the religious implications of literary and philosophical texts of Eugenio Pacelli. He was born at Rome in 1876. He was ordained priest in 1899, and in 1917 he became titular archbishop of Sardi and papal nuncio to Munich, where Adolf Hitler made his first abortive bid for power in 1923. For twelve years, Pacelli served as papal envoy in Germany; after 1920, as nuncio to all of Germany, In 1929 he was created a cardinal, and in 1930 he was appointed Papal Secretary of State. Elected pope in 1939, he assumed the name of Pius XII. He died in 1958, at Castel Gandolfo, near Rome. The dogma of the Assumption was defined by the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, November 2, 1950, and the translation that follows is that of the Official English Version.
