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Padre Pio, also known as Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (25 May 1887 – 23 September 1968), was a friar, priest, stigmatist and mystic, now venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. Born Francesco Forgione, he was given the name of Pius (Italian: Pio) when he joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.
Padre Pio became famous for exhibiting stigmata for most of his life, thereby generating much interest and controversy. He was both beatified (1999) and canonized (2002) by Pope John Paul II.
Francesco Forgione was born to Grazio Mario Forgione (1860–1946) and Maria Giuseppa Di Nunzio (1859–1929) on May 25, 1887, in Pietrelcina, a town in the province of Benevento, in the Southern Italian region of Campania. His parents were peasant farmers. He was baptized in the nearby Santa Anna Chapel, which stands upon the walls of a castle. He later served as an altar server in this same chapel. He had an older brother, Michele, and three younger sisters, Felicita, Pellegrina, and Grazia (who was later to become a Bridgettine nun). His parents had two other children who died in infancy.[3] When he was baptized, he was given the name Francesco. He stated that by the time he was five years old, he had already made the decision to dedicate his entire life to God. He worked on the land up to the age of 10, looking after the small flock of sheep the family owned.
As a youth, Francesco reported that he had experienced heavenly visions and ecstasies. In 1897, after he had completed three years at the public school, Francesco was said to have been drawn to the life of a friar after listening to a young Capuchin who was in the countryside seeking donations. When Francesco expressed his desire to his parents, they made a trip to Morcone, a community 13 miles (21 km) north of Pietrelcina, to find out if their son was eligible to enter the Order. The friars there informed them that they were interested in accepting Francesco into their community, but he needed to be better educated.
Francesco's father went to the United States in search of work to pay for private tutoring for his son, to meet the academic requirements to enter the Capuchin Order.[3] It was in this period that Francesco received the sacrament of Confirmation on 27 September 1899. He underwent private tutoring and passed the stipulated academic requirements. On 6 January 1903, at the age of 15, he entered the novitiate of the Capuchin friars at Morcone. On 22 January, he took the Franciscan habit and the name of Fra (Friar) Pio, in honor of Pope Pius I, whose relic is preserved in the Santa Anna Chapel in Pietrelcina. He took the simple vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
Commencing his seven-year study for the priesthood, Fra Pio travelled to the friary of Saint Francis of Assisi in Umbria. At 17, he fell ill, complaining of loss of appetite, insomnia, exhaustion, fainting spells, and migraines. He vomited frequently and could digest only milk and cheese. Religious devotees point to this time that inexplicable phenomena allegedly began to occur. During prayers for example, Pio appeared to others to be in a stupor, as if he were absent. One of Pio's fellow friars later claimed to have seen him in ecstasy, and allegedly levitating above the ground.
In June 1905, Pio's health worsened to such an extent that his superiors decided to send him to a mountain convent, in the hope that the change of air would do him good. This had little impact, however, and doctors advised that he return home. Even there his health failed to improve. Despite this, On 27 January 1907, he still made his solemn profession.
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Hundreds of thousands of Catholic pilgrims will descend on Rome this weekend for the beatification of Italian monk Padre Pio.
During his lifetime, people came from all over the world to see Padre Pio in his hometown of San Giovanni, in the hope the stigmated monk would heal them.
Padre Pio, who died in a southern Italian monastery in 1968, is still widely beloved.
Pictures of the bearded, benevolent-looking priest are a fixture on dashboards and store windows.
The small town of San Giovanni Rotondo is perched on a rocky hillside in Italy's southern Puglia region.
Every year thousands of tourists make their way up the narrow roads to pay tribute to this mystic monk who died 30 years ago.
Most of them come with the hope of a miracle, which they believe Padre Pio can provide.
Padre Pio came from a poor family in nearby Pietralcina.
In 1918 he began bleeding profusely from his hands, feet and just below his heart.
Word of his stigmata quickly spread and followers rushed to San Giovanni Rotondo to see him.
Most of the time he wore gloves to cover the bleeding. Since then the cult of Padre Pio spread across Italy and around the world.
Father Joseph Pio Martin joined the Capuchin monks at San Giovanni Rotondo in 1964 and stayed with Padre Pio in the last days of his life.
Father Martin saw the wounds in his hands.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
He was a very simple and extremely humble man. The first time I met him I was waiting for an entrance of this man that we considered already back in the 50s to be a saint. Instead, he came in with another friar arm in arm. If he hadn't had the gloves on I wouldn't have know he was Padre Pio, no airs or graces. That image remained intact until the moment he closed his eyes. The doctors actually shoved their fingers through the hole in the hand and they could feel them touching one another inside the wound. So you see by scientific definition what was in this man's body, in it, a wound, it had to come from a source other than mankind. If he had been doing it himself and they had been bleeding freshly every single day in front of people for 50 years they would have gone gangrene.
SUPER CAPTION: Father Joseph Pio Martin, Capuchin Monk
Padre Pio was credited with other supernatural powers during his
lifetime.
People said he could send off a powerful scent of flowers, and could appear in two places at the same time. He was sometimes heard battling the devil in his cell.
In recent years Padre Pio's image has become a booming business.
His church has a store filled with tacky Padre Pio statuettes, key chains, watches, and snow shakers, and kiosks filled with Padre Pio kitsch line the streets of San Giovanni Rotondo.
But the true believers are not put off.
The young and the old flock to Padre Pio's church believing he will help them.
For them, he is a natural for sainthood and most are surprised it has taken the Vatican so long.
SOUNDBITE: (Italian)
Padre Pio is unique and Mother Teresa, those are the logical ones. (for sainthood).
SUPER CAPTION: Giovanni DeMitts
Padre Pio had a difficult relationship with the Vatican.
During his lifetime the Vatican reportedly launched 12 investigations, seeking to learn if his stigmata were real, and if reports of his seducing women in his cell were true.
But all that is history now.
Padre Pio is well on his way to sainthood and his Capuchin Monks are flush with funds from the millions of pilgrims they host each year.
They have so much money they are building an enormous new church designed by Italy's foremost architect, Renzo Piano, most famous for his design of the Pompidou Center in Paris.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
SUPER CAPTION: Gabriella Silsby
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Pio of Pietrelcina (Italian: Pio da Pietrelcina), O.F.M. Cap. commonly known as Padre Pio, (May 25, 1887 – September 23, 1968) was a friar, priest, stigmatist and mystic of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. Padre Pio became famous for bearing the stigmata for most of his life. This condition generated much interest and controversy around him. He is now venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.
Pio was born Francesco Forgione, and given the name of Pius (Italian: Pio) when he joined the Capuchins. After his beatification in 1999, he was canonized by Pope John Paul II on June 16, 2002.
adre Pio was said to have had the gift of reading souls, the ability to bilocate (according to eyewitness accounts), among other supernatural phenomena. He was said to communicate with angels and worked favors and healings before they were requested of him.[45] The reports of supernatural phenomena surrounding Padre Pio attracted fame and legend. The Vatican was initially skeptical.
In the 1999 book, Padre Pio: The Wonder Worker, a segment by Irish priest Malachy Gerard Carroll describes the story of Gemma de Giorgi, a Sicilian girl whose blindness was believed to have been cured during a visit to Padre Pio.[46] Gemma, who was brought to San Giovanni Rotondo in 1947 by her grandmother, was born without pupils. During her trip to see Padre Pio, the little girl began to see objects, including a steamboat and the sea.[46][47] Gemma's grandmother did not believe the child had been healed. After Gemma forgot to ask Padre Pio for grace during her confession, her grandmother implored the priest to ask God to restore her sight.[46] Padre Pio told her, The child must not weep and neither must you for the child sees and you know she sees.[46] Oculists were unable to determine how she gained vision.
Padre Pio believed the love of God is inseparable from suffering, and that suffering all things for the sake of God is the way for the soul to reach God. He felt that his soul was lost in a chaotic maze, plunged into total desolation, as if he were in the deepest pit of hell.
Visit of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, General Superior of the Holy Ghost Fathers, to Padre Pio. Padre Pio is kissing the episcopal ring
Fr. Gabriele Amorth, senior exorcist of Vatican City, stated in an interview that Padre Pio was able to distinguish between real apparitions of Jesus, Mary and the saints and the illusions created by the devil, by carefully analysing the state of his mind and the feelings produced in him during the apparitions. In one of Padre Pio's letters, he states that he remained patient in the midst of his trials because of his firm belief that Jesus, Mary, his guardian angel, St. Joseph, and St. Francis were always with him and helped him [48] During his period of spiritual suffering, his followers believe that Padre Pio was attacked by the devil, both physically and spiritually.[14] His followers also believe that the devil used diabolical tricks in order to increase Padre Pio's torments. These included apparitions as an angel of light and the alteration or destruction of letters to and from his spiritual directors. Padre Augustine confirmed this when he said:
The Devil appeared as young girls that danced naked without any clothes on, as Christ Crucified, as a young friend of the friars, as the Spiritual Father or as the Provincial Father; as Pope Pius X, a Guardian Angel, as St. Francis and as Our Lady.[48]
Now, twenty-two days have passed since Jesus allowed the devils to vent their anger on me. My Father, my whole body is bruised from the beatings that I have received to the present time by our enemies. Several times, they have even torn off my shirt so that they could strike my exposed flesh.[48]
Padre Pio reported engaging in physical combat with Satan and his minions, similar to incidents described concerning St. John Vianney, from which he was said to have sustained extensive bruising. On the day of Padre Pio's death, mystic and Servant of God Maria Esperanza de Bianchini from Venezuela reported that he appeared to her in a vision and said, I have come to say good-bye. My time has come. It is your turn. Her husband saw his wife's face transfigured into that of Padre Pio. On the following day, they learned that Padre Pio had died. Witnesses say they later saw Esperanza levitating during Mass and engaging in bilocation.] Padre Domenico da Cese, a fellow Capuchin stigmatist, reported that on Sunday, September 22, 1968, he saw Padre Pio kneeling in prayer before the Holy Face of Manoppello, although it was known that Padre Pio had not left his room.
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STATION OF THE CROSS - ST. PADRE PIO
Say the Rosary every day...Pray, pray a lot and offer
sacrifices for sinners...I'm Our Lady of the Rosary.
Only I will be able to help you.
...In the end My Immaculate Heart will triumph.
Our Lady at Fatima
Pray! Pray very much! Offer prayers and sacrifices constantly to the Most High. Make everything you can a sacrifice, and offer it to God as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended... These were the words at the Angel's second appearance to the three children of Fatima.
St. Padre Pio,
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God is Merciful and will listen to your prayer...
Francesco Forgione, later known as Padre Pio, (May 25, 1887 -- September 23, 1968), canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002 as Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, was an Italian Roman Catholic Capuchin priest who was given the name Pio when he joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, and became popularly known as Padre Pio after his ordination to the priesthood. He became famous for his gift for reading consciences while hearing confessions, and for his stigmata. From 1916 to his death, he remained in the monastery of San Giovanni Rotondo.
Stigmata are bodily marks, sores, or sensations of pain in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus. The first well-documented case and the first to be accepted by Church authorities as authentic, was that of Saint Francis of Assisi (1182--1226), who first experienced stigmata in La Verna, Italy, in 1224. Saint Francis, however, was not a priest, but only a Brother; Padre Pio, worthy follower of St. Francis, was the first known priest in the history of the Church to bear the stigmata.
Padre Pio died on September 23, 1968. His body was buried three days later, in a crypt in the Church of Our Lady of Grace, in San Giovanni Rotondo. His funeral was attended by over 100,000 people. He was often heard to say, After my death I will do more. My real mission will begin after my death. The accounts of those who stayed with Padre Pio till the end state that the stigmata had completely disappeared without even leaving a scar. Only a red mark as if drawn by a red pencil remained on his side which then disappeared.
Saint Pio of Pietrelcina shows himself to us as a witness of the supernatural in a special way in the celebration of the Eucharistic Mystery.
Padre Pio really lived the mysteries that he celebrated on the altar in his own flesh and soul. The Mass is the bloodless renewal of the Sacrifice of Christ. The Mass is at the same time the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, the memorial of the sacrifice offered at the Cross and real propitiatory sacrifice to mitigate God and make Him favorable to us. This vivid experience of the Mass, sacrifice of Christ, was that of Padre Pio during his 58 years of priesthood. And he, whom God marked with the visible signs of His Passion, celebrated Mass experiencing similar pain — but not the same — as that which Jesus had on the Cross.
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Padre Pio, also known as Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, O.F.M. Cap., who was a friar, priest, and mystic, now venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Born Francesco Forgione, he was given the name of Pius when he joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.
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Pius from Pietrelcina, now Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, better known as Padre Pio, Francesco Forgione (Pietrelcina, 25 May 1887 - San Giovanni Rotondo, 23 September 1968), was an Italian presbyter of the Order of Capuchin Friars Minor; the Catholic Church venerates it as a saint and celebrates its liturgical memorial on September 23rd, the anniversary of death.
San Pio da Pietrelcina
Pio da Pietrelcina, ora san Pio da Pietrelcina, meglio noto come padre Pio, al secolo Francesco Forgione (Pietrelcina, 25 maggio 1887 – San Giovanni Rotondo, 23 settembre 1968), è stato un presbitero italiano, dell'Ordine dei frati minori cappuccini; la Chiesa cattolica lo venera come santo e ne celebra la memoria liturgica il 23 settembre, anniversario della morte.
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Padre Pio, also known as Saint Pio of Pietrelcina , O.F.M. Cap. , was a friar, priest, stigmatist, and mystic, now venerated as a saint of the Catholic church. Born Francesco Forgione, he was given the name of Pius when he joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. Padre Pio became famous for exhibiting stigmata for most of his life, thereby generating much interest and controversy. He was both beatified and canonized by Pope John Paul II. The Sanctuary of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina is located in San Giovanni Rotondo, Province of Foggia, Italy....
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Italian monk Padre Pio to be canonized on Sunday, preview
Rome - 14 June 2002
1. Man carrying a statue of Padre Pio
2. Close up detail of the statue
3. Man carrying statue into religious objects store
4. Banners announcing Sunday's canonisation ceremony
Vatican - 14 June 2002
5. Wide shot tent in Saint Peter's square handing out tickets
6. Various people getting tickets for the ceremony
7. Wide shot S.Peter square being set up for the Canonisation
8. Workers setting up chairs
Rome - 14 June 2002
9. Padre Florio Tessari walking in the Cloister at Capuchin convent in Rome
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Padre Florio Tessari, Capuchin friar:
I think Padre Pio's importance depends on the fact that he was among those men who succeeded, in his humanity, to resemble, even physically, Jesus' image. It is a deep love, which were put into practice through the stigmata. This external manifestation of such a deep love became the focus of attraction and also curiosity. But this is not the important part about Padre Pio. He is important because, just as Jesus did, he succeeded in being close to the lasts, the poor, the troubled people, the marginalised, who ran to him.
11. Close up rope belt on friar's robes
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12. Various of Padre Pio holding a service
Rome - 14 June 2002
13. Rack shot bars to picture of Padre Pio
14. Museum exhibit
15. Hands of Padre Pio, pull out to entire poster of him
16. Push-in glove used by Padre Pio to cover bleeding stigmata
17. Close up candle at at the exhibition
18. Close up ey chain spinning with picture of Padre Pio and the Pope
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The Vatican and the city of Rome spent weeks preparing for the flood of religious pilgrims who travelled to see the canonization of Padre Pio, the mystic monk the Vatican once sought to stifle.
Streets have been blocked, bus routes altered and the city has put one-thousand police, carabinieri and traffic officers on duty.
Sixteen special trains carried religious pilgrims to Rome, and according to one newspaper report, some police watching for pickpockets will be dressed as monks.
Capuchin friars handed out some 250-thousand bottles of mineral water with a picture of Padre Pio on the label.
An estimated 600 priests will give communion, and pilgrims can watch the canonization of nine giant screens placed in and around the Vatican.
Padre Pio was born to a poor family in Southern Italy. When he was 15 he joined a Franciscan convent and took the name Friar Pio of Petralcina. Other Friars with cells near him said they could hear him fighting with Satan.
In 1918 he reportedly began to bleed profusely from his hands, feet and just below his heart. Word of his stigmata quickly spread and followers rushed to see him.
Scorned and doubted by many in the Vatican for much of his life and accused by detractors of being a fraud, Padre Pio persisted in his life's labour of prayer, and his popularity among rank-and-file Catholics grew wildly.
During his lifetime the Vatican reportedly launched 12 investigations, seeking to learn if his stigmata were real, if reports of his seducing women in his cell were true.
Padre Pio was credited with supernatural powers during his lifetime. People said he would give off a powerful scent of flowers, and could appear in two places at the same time.
Meanwhile, his reputation spread abroad. While a simple priest, Karol Wojytla journeyed from Poland to Puglia to be confessed by Padre Pio.
A Capuchin Priest who formally argued the cause of sainthood at the Vatican, the Rev. Forio Tessari said that it was not the scent or the bleeding that really mattered.
Padre Pio was considered the first priest in centuries to bear the signs of the stigmata, the wounds that Christ suffered in his hands, feet and side, at crucifixion.
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Hello from San Giovanni Rotondo - Padre Cesare Brandi OFM Cap
Padre Cesare Brandi OFM Cap. Interview in Italian and English. Padre Cesare is from a little town near Florence. He is a true Capuchin, a humble and holy man with great spiritual wisdom. Padre Cesare also has a great sense of humor and he has the most practical, beautiful and unique rosary, that I have ever seen.
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The wonders of Puglia!
A wonderful video that will bring you in a tour to San Giovanni Rotondo (Foggia), to visit the places of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, the monastery of Capuchin friars of Santa Maria delle Grazie, where Padre Pio died in 1968, and the new church designed by great architect Renzo Piano, open since 2004. For a full immersion in history and tradition, Alberobello is a must. The town of the trulli, ancient and peculiar stone houses with a conical roof, constructed without mortar, is so unique that it was inscribed on the World Heritage list by Unesco.
STATION OF THE CROSS WITH REFLECTION OF ST. PADRE PIO
Say the Rosary every day...Pray, pray a lot and offer
sacrifices for sinners...I'm Our Lady of the Rosary.
Only I will be able to help you.
...In the end My Immaculate Heart will triumph.
Our Lady at Fatima
Pray! Pray very much! Offer prayers and sacrifices constantly to the Most High. Make everything you can a sacrifice, and offer it to God as an act of reparation for the sins by which He is offended... These were the words at the Angel's second appearance to the three children of Fatima.
St. Padre Pio,
Mystic,Confessor and Stigmatic.
He said: Pray, hope and do not worry. Worries are useless.
God is Merciful and will listen to your prayer...
Francesco Forgione, later known as Padre Pio, (May 25, 1887 -- September 23, 1968), canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002 as Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, was an Italian Roman Catholic Capuchin priest who was given the name Pio when he joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, and became popularly known as Padre Pio after his ordination to the priesthood. He became famous for his gift for reading consciences while hearing confessions, and for his stigmata. From 1916 to his death, he remained in the monastery of San Giovanni Rotondo.
Stigmata are bodily marks, sores, or sensations of pain in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus. The first well-documented case and the first to be accepted by Church authorities as authentic, was that of Saint Francis of Assisi (1182--1226), who first experienced stigmata in La Verna, Italy, in 1224. Saint Francis, however, was not a priest, but only a Brother; Padre Pio, worthy follower of St. Francis, was the first known priest in the history of the Church to bear the stigmata.
Padre Pio died on September 23, 1968. His body was buried three days later, in a crypt in the Church of Our Lady of Grace, in San Giovanni Rotondo. His funeral was attended by over 100,000 people. He was often heard to say, After my death I will do more. My real mission will begin after my death. The accounts of those who stayed with Padre Pio till the end state that the stigmata had completely disappeared without even leaving a scar. Only a red mark as if drawn by a red pencil remained on his side which then disappeared.
Saint Pio of Pietrelcina shows himself to us as a witness of the supernatural in a special way in the celebration of the Eucharistic Mystery.
Padre Pio really lived the mysteries that he celebrated on the altar in his own flesh and soul. The Mass is the bloodless renewal of the Sacrifice of Christ. The Mass is at the same time the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, the memorial of the sacrifice offered at the Cross and real propitiatory sacrifice to mitigate God and make Him favorable to us. This vivid experience of the Mass, sacrifice of Christ, was that of Padre Pio during his 58 years of priesthood. And he, whom God marked with the visible signs of His Passion, celebrated Mass experiencing similar pain — but not the same — as that which Jesus had on the Cross.
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Padre Pio: More than the saint of stigmas
June 22, 2009. It was on a farm in a small town in southern Italy where Padre Pio, one of the most famous, studied, and loved saints of our time, grew up.
His name was Francesco and he was born on May 25, 1887. His parents, who were Christian were not at all surprised when he decided to become a capuchin. At 23, he was ordained a priest.
He couldnt join the order for six years because of his health problems. Once he entered the San Giovanni Rotondo convent his main ministry was to hear confessions to which he dedicated 14 hours of his day.
Friar Francesco Dileo
Order of Capuchins
It was in religious life where he became saintly. He lived the virtues of religious life in a very deep manner. This showed the world a great saint, a man who decided to devote his life to the service of God and men.
But God asked more of him. In 1918, when he was 31, his hands and his side began to reveal signs of the same wounds Christ suffered on the cross caused by the nails and spear that penetrated his hands and side.
Friar Francesco Dileo
Order of Capuchins
He accepted to participate in the passion of Christ. But he didnt need these external signs. He said, Why do I need this confusion? Because he knew the expectations that these stigmas would spark around him.
Padre Pio gained quite a following due to the physical signs on his body, his pastoral care for those who visited San Giovanni Rotondo, and the miracles attributed to him. He received hundreds of letters from people asking for his help.
There were so many that the brothers of his order had to help him read them all.
He didnt rest much, yet he was still happy. To avoid possible confusion, the Vatican asked him to live a non-public life, and he obeyed.
Eleven years later, Pope Pius XII allowed him to continue his public ministry and he received Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
Friar Francesco Dileo
Order of Capuchins
They say a person came to Padre Pio to ask for his help in building a hospital. He was a doctor or engineer. He said, I dont believe in God, And Padre Pio responded, Dont worry. God believes in you.
Today, his witness is still remembered and celebrated. His example and words continue to leave those devoted to him in awe. Apart from the extraordinary events surrounding Padre Pios life, it was his simplicity and care for others that still inspires people today.
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St. Joseph was born in 1603 at Cupertino, in the diocese of Nardo in the Kingdom of Naples. After spending his childhood and adolescence in simplicity and innocence, he finally joined the Franciscan Friars Minor Conventual. After his ordination to the holy priesthood, he gave himself up entirely to a life of devotion to the Lord and his church. His deep devotional life led him to the kind of holiness which is forged through humility, voluntary mortification, and obedience. He was consecrated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and promoted devotion to her among all classes of people as wonderful path to a deeper Christian life and love for Jesus Christ.
It is said that his mother often considered him a nuisance and treated him harshly. Joseph was purported to be slow to learn and absent-minded. He was said to frequently wander aimlessly, with his mouth gaping open. And, he had a bad temper, so, he was not at all popular. He tried to learn the trade of shoemaking, but failed. He asked to become a Franciscan, but they initially would not accept him. Finally he did join the Capuchins. However, for a very short period of time. Eight months later, they sent him away. Sources say it was because he could not seem to do anything right.
He dropped piles of dishes and kept forgetting to do what he was told. His mother was not at all pleased to have the eighteen-year-old Joseph back home again, so she finally got him accepted as a servant at the Franciscan monastery. He was given the friars habit and put to hard work taking care of the horses.
About this time, Joseph began to change. He grew in humility and gentleness, fruits of the Holy Spirit at work in a person. He became more careful and successful at his work. He also began to pray more do more voluntary acts of penance. Finally, he was able to enter the Franciscan order and, eventually, study for the priesthood. Although he was a good and holy friar, he had a very hard time with studies. During his seminary exams, the examiner happened to ask him to explain the only thing he knew well, and so he was ordained a deacon, and later a priest.
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The Shrine of Padre Pio in San Giovanni Rotondo, southern Italy, is the second-most visited Catholic shrine in the world. It centers on the tomb of Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, a Capuchin friar, priest and mystic known for his devotion to God, care for the sick, and supernatural gifts. He died in 1968 and was declared a saint in 2002.
Padre Pio is admired for his fervant love of Christ and the Virgin Mary and is known as the great mystic of modern times.
He is reported to have experienced a wide variety of supernatural abilities and miraculous events including: the reading of souls; prophecy; bilocation (being in two places at once); the odor of sanctity; discernment of spirits; living on very little sleep; miraculous healings; personal visits from Jesus and Mary; and daily communication with his guardian angel.
Padre Pio's most famous spiritual gift is the stigmata, which he received in 1918 while praying before a crucifix. He is said to have bled from the five wounds of Christ for the rest of his life, which caused him great suffering and embarrassment.
Because of Padre Pio's great holiness and gifts, the devil is said to have waged war on the friar throughout his life, which included physical attacks resulting in cuts, bruises and other visible marks.
Padre Pio was devoted to all those who sought his help, but he was especially devoted to the souls in purgatory.
He once said, More souls of the dead from purgatory, than of the living, climb this mountain to attend my Masses and seek my prayers.
Next to the Monastery rises the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, originally dedicated to Santa Maria degli Angeli, consecrated in 1629. Inaugurated in 1959, thanks to the perseverance and passion of Pio, the old Sanctuary welcomed the thousands of faithful and pilgrims that arrived in droves everyday. They came to this small Apulian village to see the places where the Saint lived out his faith, up until the realization of the new Church.
The Church’s crypt also hosted, up until a few years ago, the tomb of St. Pio, now found inside the crypt of the new adjacent complex.
Padre Pio | Wikipedia audio article
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Padre Pio
00:00:47 1 Early life
00:03:57 2 Priesthood
00:06:07 3 Military service
00:06:56 4 Stigmata
00:10:30 4.1 Transverberation and visible stigmata
00:17:35 5 Poor health
00:18:48 6 Controversies
00:23:58 7 Later life
00:26:11 8 Death
00:28:15 9 Reported supernatural phenomena
00:31:54 10 Sainthood and later recognition
00:38:14 11 See also
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Padre Pio, also known as Saint Pio of Pietrelcina (Italian: Pio da Pietrelcina), O.F.M. Cap. (May 25, 1887 – September 23, 1968), was a friar, priest, stigmatist, and mystic, now venerated as a saint of the Catholic church. Born Francesco Forgione, he was given the name of Pius (Italian: Pio) when he joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.
Padre Pio became famous for exhibiting stigmata for most of his life, thereby generating much interest and controversy. He was both beatified (1999) and canonized (2002) by Pope John Paul II.The Sanctuary of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina is located in San Giovanni Rotondo, Province of Foggia, Italy.
Himno en honor a San Leopoldo Mandic
San Leopoldo ingresó muy joven en la Orden capuchina, deseoso de trabajar por la unidad de las Iglesias, por lo que pidió permiso para marchar a misiones. Pero los superiores, teniendo en cuenta su frágil salud, lo dedicaron a la ardua tarea del confesionario, en la que perseveró toda su larga vida, acogiendo y reconciliando a innumerables penitentes de toda clase. Significativamente, Juan Pablo II lo canonizó durante la celebración del Sínodo de los obispos sobre «la Reconciliación».
El P. Leopoldo, llamado en el siglo Adeodato Mandic, nació en Castelnovo de Càttaro o Herceg-Novi (Croacia) el 12 de mayo de 1866, siendo el penúltimo de doce hijos. Todavía joven, se sintió llamado por Dios a trabajar por la unidad de los Ortodoxos a la Iglesia católica. Para ello, se trasladó a la región de Venecia y, a la edad de 16 años, ingresó en el noviciado capuchino de Udine (Italia), con la ilusión de ir más tarde a Oriente como misionero.
Ordenado de sacerdote en 1890, pidió a los superiores permiso para marchar a misiones, pero nunca se lo concedieron, entre otras razones, por su frágil constitución física y su delicado estado de salud, así como un pequeño defecto de pronunciación que le hacía penosa la predicación. No obstante, supo buscar la realización de su ideal allá donde le enviaba la obediencia. Se dedicó a las diversas tareas que le encomendaron los superiores, hasta centrarse en el ministerio de la confesión.
Durante cuarenta años, y hasta la víspera de su muerte, estuvo siempre dispuesto a acoger, escuchar, consolar y reconciliar a innumerables penitentes en una pequeña habitación aneja al convento de los Capuchinos en Padua. Murió, a la edad de 76 años, el 30 de julio de 1942: mientras se preparaba para celebrar la misa, le dio un ataque cerebral que le causó poco después la muerte, mientras sus hermanos cantaban la Salve a la Virgen. Pablo VI lo beatificó el 2 de mayo de 1976, y Juan Pablo II lo canonizó el 16 de octubre de 1983, dentro del Año Santo de la Reconciliación y precisamente durante la VI Asamblea General Ordinaria del Sínodo de los Obispos, que tenía como tema central «La reconciliación y la penitencia en la misión de la Iglesia».
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The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders within the Catholic Church, founded in 1209 by Saint Francis of Assisi. These orders include the Order of Friars Minor, the Order of Saint Clare, and the Third Order of Saint Francis. These orders adhere to the teachings and spiritual disciplines of the founder and of his main associates and followers, such as Clare of Assisi, Anthony of Padua, and Elizabeth of Hungary, among many others.Francis began preaching around 1207 and traveled to Rome to seek approval from Pope Innocent III in 1209 to form a new religious order. The original Rule of Saint Francis approved by the Pope disallowed ownership of property, requiring members of the order to beg for food while preaching. The austerity was meant to emulate the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. Franciscans traveled and preached in the streets, while boarding in church properties. Saint Clare, under Francis's guidance, founded the Poor Clares (Order of Saint Clare) in 1212, which remains a Second Order of the Franciscans. The extreme poverty required of members was relaxed in the final revision of the Rule in 1223. The degree of observance required of members remained a major source of conflict within the order, resulting in numerous secessions.The Order of Friars Minor, previously known as the Observant branch, is one of the three Franciscan First Orders within the Catholic Church, the others being the Conventuals (formed 1517) and Capuchins (1520). The Order of Friars Minor, in its current form, is the result of an amalgamation of several smaller orders completed in 1897 by Pope Leo XIII. The latter two, the Capuchin and Conventual, remain distinct religious institutes within the Catholic Church, observing the Rule of Saint Francis with different emphases. Conventual Franciscans are sometimes referred to as minorites or greyfriars because of their habit. In Poland and Lithuania they are known as Bernardines, after Bernardino of Siena, although the term elsewhere refers to Cistercians instead.
His mother’s house - Audioguide
Sunday, 14th August 1910: Peppa, his mum, prepared the lunch for her son’s first mass. He called her ‘mammella’, which means, in Italian, both ‘mummy’ and ‘breast’ and so it refers to his love for his mother, who feed him with her milk. She told him: ‘My beloved son, my heart is broken, but St. Francis is calling you and you must go’. So she accepted God’s will. Instead his father had followed the destiny of many men obliged to go to America to improve the family economic life.
This maternal love is evident in Francis’s letters, too: ‘I’m aware that I’m improving myself every day, so I’m very happy and my mum is happy too’. Another time he wrote: ‘as for the complaint you did to my mum about my trip to Pompei, you are right… it’s true that I have spent some money but now I promise I’ll earn them by studying’.
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