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In the 1850s, Pope Pius IX (May 13, 1792 - February 7, 1878) contributed a marble block as a memorial stone for the Washington Monument. The Know-Nothings, an anti-Catholic political party, are believed to have stolen the stone in March 1854 and thrown it into the Potomac River.

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