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The Antichrist according to Saint Pius X: An Unexpected Interpretation of the “Abomination of Desolation”

120 years ago, on August 4, 1903, the pontificate of Pope Saint Pius X began. Two months later, on October 4, 1903, his first encyclical, E Supremi,[i] was published in order to describe the pontifical program represented by the motto “Instaurare Omnia in Christo” (To restore all things in Christ), used as a subtitle for the text. Revolving around the first verse of the second Psalm of King David, the beginning of the document was dedicated to the situation of the Church in the modern world: “The nations have raged and the peoples imagined vain things (Psalm 2: 1) against…