Pope Pius XII, portrait photograph, April 1958
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Portrait photograph of Pope Pius XII taken 26 April 1958, six months before his death on 9 October 1958. Sourced from the Navy Medicine Flickr Commons collection, which carries a 'no known copyright restrictions' declaration. Pius XII died in 1958 and is a historical figure.
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A portrait photograph of Pope Pius XII taken 26 April 1958, six months before his death on 9 October 1958. Original photographer unknown. Held in the Navy Medicine photographic collection on Flickr Commons with a ‘no known copyright restrictions’ declaration; reproduced via Wikimedia Commons. Pius XII (1876-1958) was treated by Paul Niehans during the pope’s grave illness at the Vatican in 1954, an episode that became the central credentialing event in the public history of Niehans’s cellular therapy.