Yves ChironYVES CHIRON, born in the Gard (Southern France) in 1960, obtained his degree in advanced studies in the History of Religions and Religious Anthropology at the University of Paris IV. After writing an authoritative biography of Edmund Burke, he turnedhis attention to modern Church history and has written biographies of Pius IX, Pius X, Pius XI, and Paul VI, as well as works on the process of beatification and canonization. Read More Read Less