Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, nicknamed “Bepi” by his family, was born on June 2, 1835 in Riese, Italy, a farming village near Venice. He was the oldest of nine children. We know him today as Pope Saint Pius X ... 

In 1954, Monsignor Hugh A. Dolan, Pastor of St. Benedict’s Parish, and Bishop Vincent S. Waters of the Raleigh Diocese, purchased 14.2 acres of land at the northeast corner of North Elm Street and East Cornwallis Drive ...