That rope, what weird timing just now,
While digging on something else, I ran across this regarding Pope Saint Pius X, born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto who was head of the Catholic Church from August 1903 to his death in "Negros Ask Pope To Stop Lynching"
The New York Herald (New York [N.Y.]), August 6, 1903 – Library of Congress - https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1903-08-06/ed-1/?sp=3&r=0.29,0.662,0.162,0.096,0