STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- To celebrate the 16th anniversary of St. Padre Pio’s canonization, members of the St. Pio of Pietrelcina Society hosted a mass a Holy Rosary R.C. Church. The mass was con ...

St. Padre Pio was a Capuchin friar best known for possessing the stigmata, or wounds of Jesus Christ, and was said to have special gifts from God. He died in Foggia, Italy, in 1968 where his heart ...

“So we decided that if the people can’t go to Padre Pio, we would bring Padre Pio to them.” The veneration continues Tuesday from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., and will be followed by a mass at 7 p.m.

To keep his memory alive, each year the St. Pio of Pietrelcina Society sponsors the annual Padre Pio Feast Day Mass on Sept. 23 (the day of his death) in Holy Rosary R.C. Church, South Beach ...

“Padre Pio was very dedicated to the rosary. He would say 35 holy rosaries a day," he said. "So I felt compelled to go back (to Utica)." Follow @OD_Mason on Twitter or call him at 315-792-5074.

Mona Bouillion, parish secretary at Our Lady of Fatima, said that Padre Pio rosary beads, prayer cards, booklets and CDs may be among items for sale Sunday.

Storm Desmond is being credited with the return of religious items including rosary beads to a woman in Co Kerry in a bizarre story in which a hunter mistook her stolen bag for a duck.

A Kilgarvan woman has described as a 'miracle' the recovery of her water-soaked handbag containing her late mother's rosary beads and Padre Pio medal that was stolen from her locked car while she ...