Catholic artist Timothy Schmalz calls Padre Pio his favorite saint. And so, when he learned that four of his sculptures would honor the Italian mystic on his feast day — Sept. 23 — he was overjoyed.
Above, the hospital founded by Padre Pio was built in 1956 on the top of a hill in San Giovanni Rotondo. Today, it cares for more than 1 million patients. Below, Capuchin Father Robert Guenin ...
SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, ITALY — The exhumed and cosmetically enhanced corpse of Padre Pio, mystic monk and one of the world’s most revered saints, went on display here Thursday amid weeping devotees and ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — As a way to mark the commemoratives connected to St. Padre Pio this year, Brian Hall, president of Joseph G. Hall Monument Company, donated an etching-on-marble-slab of St. Pio ...
Padre Pio, who had the physical marks of Christ's passion on his body, showed Christ crucified to the world, Minister General Fr. Roberto Guerin, OFM Cap., said during a Mass for the saint's feast on ...
During his lifetime, the beloved Roman Catholic priest and friar known as Padre Pio was believed to levitate, heal the sick, read minds and bilocate — the power to be in two places at once. Since his ...
Pope Francis speaks to faithful in Pietrelcina, southern Italy, the birthplace of St. Padre Pio, Saturday, March 17, 2018, during a one-day pastoral visit to Pietralcina and San Giovanni Rotondo.
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