Peter and Paul Catholic Church Tuesday for an encounter with the relics of St. Pio of Pietrelcina. Francesco Forgione, known as Padre Pio or St. Pio, was an Italian Franciscan Capuchin friar ...

PIETRELCINA, Italy — Speaking Saturday in Pietrelcina, the town where St. Padre Pio was born, Pope Francis encouraged devotion to Holy Mother Church, explaining how despite the imperfection of ...

The organization is looking with enthusiasm toward its 10th Annual Procession and Mass at Holy Rosary Church, on Sept. 23, Padre Pio’s Feast Day, where all are welcome and invited to attend. St ...

Members of the society will lead the processional with the statue of St. Padre Pio, and then proceed to the church for a 7:30 p.m. Mass celebrated by the Rev. Michael Martine, pastor of the South ...

POTTSVILLE – William Montag knelt and bowed his head in prayer as a relic of Saint Padre Pio was pressed to his back Tuesday evening at St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church.“We are asking for ...

Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Naperville, the only stop they will make in Illinois in 2023. St. Pio of Pietrelcina, also known as Padre Pio, an Italian Franciscan Capuchin friar, priest and ...

just like St. Francis of Assisi. On Sept. 20, 1918, Padre Pio received the stigmata while praying in a church. The wounds remained visible on his body for the rest of his life. The wounds were on ...

Parishioners proceed into the church at St. Padre Pio Parish for a mass celebrating the St. Padre Pio Festival in Vineland, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019.Get Photo. 19 / 26.

St. Pio, an Italian-born Capuchin friar was known for having heavenly visions. He was drawn to religious life at the age of 10 after hearing a Capuchin speak. He first experienced stigmata in 1918 ...

Praying with life size statue of St. Pio.Veneration of the relics of Padre Pio, who was made a saint ... who claimed to be the first priest in the Catholic church’s history to bear the stigmata ...

In terms of the dynamics of the Church, however ... (They did so with an assist, of course, from St. Pope John Paul II, who met Padre Pio as a young priest in 1947, and who, as a fellow mystic ...

Everyone is invited to the Feb. 17 festival honoring Saint Padre Pio. Mark Young: 941-745-7041 , @urbanmark2014 This story was originally published January 5, 2018 at 11:22 AM.