Robin Anderson (2) (1913–)

Saint Pius V is a short biography of one of the great popes of the early modern era. Pope Pius V is known for a wide variety of things, from cleaning up the Vatican to excommunicating Queen Elizabeth. This book tries to touch on all of them, so there is a chapter about his life growing up and joining the Dominican Order, and then various chapters detailing different aspects of his papacy. Whether it dealing with matters at the Vatican, organizing the Holy League that will defeat the Turks at Lepanto, or standardizing the mass with the 1570 edition of the Roman missal, Anderson manages to cover it somewhere in the book's one hundred pages. An excellent short biography of a very influential figure whose influence lasted long after death. Highly recommended.… (more)