Saint Padre Pio

Mystic, Confessor, Stigmatic For 50 years he suffered the five wounds of the crucifixion. A true victim with Christ. A credible sign to our time. A channel of grace. His Sanctity attracted souls and moved them toward Christ. His Spiritual Family is open to all — “They will know and I will know,” he said to me.” May the Church honor him for his sanctity and wisdom — and officially grant us a New Saint:
William M. Carrigan,
Witness and Friend of Padre Pio

Padre Pio believed that “Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering

Feast Day is September 23

Padre Pio, a humble Capuchin priest from San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, was blessed by God in many wonderful and mysterious ways. The most dramatic was the stigmata. Padre Pio bore the wounds of Christ for fifty years!

Among his other gifts were perfume, bilocation, prophecy, conversion, reading of souls, and miraculous cures. People are still being cured through his intercession in ways that cannot be explained by medicine or science.

More important, if less spectacular, are the spiritual healings that take place in all parts of the world! Padre Pio is a powerful intercessor!!

The Padre Pio Foundation, http://www.padrepio.com/