When he was a child, Francis Forgione was noted among the villagers of Pietrelcina, Italy for his piety. No one was surprised when he became a Capuchin monk and in due time was ordained a priest under ...

“The Mystery of Padre Pio” is the new episode of Una Giornata Particolare by Aldo Cazzullo, airing Wednesday, December 17 in prime time on La7. Some believed he was a fraud who self-inflicted stigmata ...

The story of Padre Pio (1887-1968) from the onset of the stigmata during World War I, when he prayed that soldiers' suffering be his, until his death. The story is told by Emilia, Pio's friend, to a ...

The National Centre for Padre Pio in Barto, Pennsylvania, is displaying relics of St. Padre Pio in an exhibit traveling throughout the nation and one of the stops will be at St. Anne and St. Patrick ...

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In the small Italian village of Pietrelcina, on May 25, 1887, Francesco Forgione was born into a humble family of farmers. No one could have predicted that this boy, who would later take the name ...

One of the most popular Catholic saints of the 20th century, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, commonly known as Padre Pio, was a Capuchin Franciscan friar, priest, and mystic. His tomb can be found in the ...

Various historical testimonies document that the beloved St. Pio of Pietrelcina (commonly known as Padre Pio), whose feast day is celebrated on Sept. 23, had the gift of xenoglossia — that is, he was ...

The Catholic Church has a long and controversial history of the faithful claiming to have had visions of the Virgin Mary, of statues that purportedly wept blood tears and stigmata that erupted on ...

A statue of St. Pio of Pietrelcina is displayed in the garden at Jesus the Good Shepherd Church in Dunkirk, Md., April 28, 2022. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller) (OSV News) — A beloved Italian saint is ...

Catholics from throughout the Washington area gathered Nov. 7 at Holy Family Parish in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland to honor the relics of Padre Pio – St. Pio of Pietrelcina. During the veneration, ...