Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti was born in Senigallia on the 13th May 1792

He was elected Pope on the 16th June 1846

He died on the 7th February 1878

Beatification on 3rd September 2000

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QVOD . PERSPECTAM . VITAE . EXERCVERIT

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QVODQVE. DEIPARAM. VIRGINEM. MARIAM

INMACVLATAM . EX . CATHEDRA . DEFINIERIT

IVRA. DEI. ET. ECCLESIAE LIBERTATEM

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MAIOREMQVE. IN . EGENOS . LARGITATEM

QVAM. QVIS. AESTIMARE. POSSIT. EFFVDERIT

SENOGALLENSIS. POPVLVS

VNA . CVM . ORBE . VNIVERSO

PLAVSVS . IMPERTIT . MAXIMOS

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Pius IX Museum

Mastai Ferretti Palace

Pope Pius IX (1792 - 1878) souvenirs are kept in Mastai Ferretti hereditary palace, a building of the XVI century. Here Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti (then the Pope Pius IX) was born on 13th May 1792. Mastai family was native of Crema and in 1520 it had settled in Venice. In the 1570-80's Giovanni M. Mastai came to Senigallia from Venice, to go into trade (at Fiera Franca time) and settled here after his marriage with a certain Caterina Garibaldi, who brought him, as her marriage settlement, the building that, from then, became the Mastai family residence. In June 1594 Giovanni M. Mastai was admitted to the Town Council. It was in 1659 that the count Angelo Ferretti of Ancona left in heritage to his sister Margherita, married Mastai, his place in Ancona and five possessions in Castelferretti. From then, the Mastai added to their surname the one of Ferretti and acquired the title of count. In 1705 the same title was conferred directly to Giovanni M. Mastai by Francesco Farnese, duke of Parma, whose Mastai had been page and bedroom gentleman. In 1909 the palace was sold to Monsignor Giovanni Farley, Archibishop of New York, who made a perpetual emphiteusis for the "Petition of the beatification and canonization of Pius IX, a servant of God". On the ground floor there is a seat of the Catholic Centre of Culture and social promotion. You reach the first floor, or "noble floor", going up calcareous grand staircase; on the walls hang prints, posters and various announcements that remind us of the times of Pius IX's governaments, and there a sintetic design reconstructs a genealogical tree of the "Mastai family". On the first floor, over the entrance, a memorial tablet remembers the first centenary of Pius IX's birth, on the occasion of which the museum was opened.

Mastai Ferretti Palace

                                The Amnesty Room                               The Room of the Autographs

Pius IX Birthroom

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