Francesco Forgione was born in Pietrelcina, in southern Italy, in 1887. His parents were poor farmers, whose eight children attended Mass and prayed the Rosary daily, and abstained from meat three ...
Padre Pio, whose real name was Francesco Forgione, was born to Giuseppe and Grazio Forgione in Pietrelcina, Italy on May 25, 1887. Although the Forgiones were basically a poor family, they were very ...
In the second season of Deadwood, sniveling hotel proprietor E.B. Farnum makes the mistake of scamming Francis Wolcott, agent of the ruthless mining magnate George Hearst. “Some ancient Italian maxim ...
Editor's note: This is Ann DeMatteo's 22nd column following her diagnosis with breast cancer. Today, we add the word "Inspirations" to her column. In starting off the New Year, I thought I'd write ...
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Catholic saint's sacred relics come to America after leaving Italy for first time
A love for Padre Pio, a Capuchin priest who grew up in Pietrelcina, has been passed down to generations of Italians.
ROME – One of Catholicism’s most beguiling features is its endless capacity for complexity, and that certainly extends to its understanding of suffering. On the one hand, few institutions on earth ...
When he was a child, Francis Forgione was noted among the villagers of Pietrelcina, Italy for his piety. No one was surprised when he became a Capuchin monk and in due time was ordained a priest under ...
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