She was described by Pope Pius X as "the greatest saint of modern times".
In 1903, in Rome, following the death of Pope Leo XIII, Giuseppe Sarto was crowned as Pope Pius X before 70, 000 people.
Pius X is all about, and to understand that, you have to understand a little about the dead pope after whom the society was named.
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Pius X, who split from Rome precisely over the Vatican II reforms, in particular its call for Mass in the vernacular and outreach to other religions, especially Judaism and Islam.
They belong to the Society of St Pius X, founded by a French archbishop, Marcel Lefebvre, in 1970 as a protest against the Second Vatican Council's reforms on religious freedom and pluralism.
He became a member of the Society of St Pius X, which had been founded by Archbishop Lefebvre in 1970 to counter the reforms in the Church made by the Second Vatican Council during the previous decade.
Since the reign of Pope Pius X at the beginning of the 20th Century every pope has occupied the palatial penthouse apartment with more than a dozen rooms, staff quarters, a terrace and extensive views over the city of Rome.
In his desire to bring dissident Catholics back into the mainstream Church, Pope Benedict has been negotiating with a traditionalist Catholic Group based in Switzerland, known as the Society of Saint Pius X, which roundly rejects the reforms of Vatican II.
The four bishops have been asked by the Vatican to recognise the authority of the Pope and the Second Vatican Council and talks are planned to seek to resolve the "open questions" in the Church's relationship with the Society of St Pius X.
His push to return the Society of Pius X, a Catholic splinter group, to the fold in 2009 stumbled badly when the pope lifted an excommunication ban against group's leadership, only to learn after the fact that one of its bishops had given a television interview denying the scope of the Holocaust.
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