But Pio's relatives have threatened to take their local bishop to court if the corpse is removed from the church crypt in San Giovanni Rotondo in south Italy. The Franciscan monk was canonised by the ...

The ancient bauxite mine of San Giovanni Rotondo, the Tufara of Santa Lucia, the Sacred Basilica of San Michele, and the Capuana Valley are just some of the enchanting places that Gargano boasts.

Tomorrow, San Giovanni Rotondo is preparing to experience a moment of great significance with a torchlight procession and a mass in memory of Pope Francis. The initiative, promoted by the Municipality ...

Despite the fact that the Vatican was long reluctant to endorse any of these claims, Padre Pio, from the 1930s onwards, became the object of great popular affection and veneration, drawing large ...

Padre Pio opened the hospital on May 5, 1956, in San Giovanni Rotondo, the southern Italian community where his Capuchin friary was located. It’s part of the so-called “spur” on the heel of ...

In his lifetime, Pio used devotees’ donations to set up a research hospital at the shrine in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, to couple medical healing with spiritual healing. Children touch the ...

In his lifetime, Pio used devotees’ donations to set up a research hospital at the shrine in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, to couple medical with spiritual healing. When he died in 1968 ...

The Italian teenager Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006 of a rare form of leukemia at age 15, will soon become the Catholic Church's first "millennial saint." Acutis was a computer programmer who ...

In his lifetime, Pio used devotees’ donations to set up a research hospital at the shrine in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, to couple medical healing with spiritual healing. In 2016, Pope Francis ...