New details have emerged about the Vatican’s first investigation of the famous stigmata of St. Pio of Petrelcina. The renowned saint — who died exactly 40 years ago today on Sept. 23, 1968 — was first ...

Pio, a former monk who died in 1968 aged 81, wore gloves because his hands bled constantly for 50 years in what were revered as stigmata wounds. He became Italy's most loved saint after he was ...

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The heart of Padre Pio, the sainted Italian priest and mystic who bore stigmata, will be on display on Sunday at a church in Vineland, the Press of Atlantic City reports. The relic of the Capuchin ...

One of the most popular Catholic saints of the 20th century, St. Pio of Pietrelcina, commonly known as Padre Pio, was a Capuchin Franciscan friar, priest, and mystic. His tomb can be found in the ...

As is customary, the St. Pio of Pietrelcina Society will host the eighth annual Padre Pio Feast Day Mass Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 7 p.m. in Holy Rosary R.C. Church, South Beach. The society was formed ...

Above, the hospital founded by Padre Pio was built in 1956 on the top of a hill in San Giovanni Rotondo. Today, it cares for more than 1 million patients. Below, Capuchin Father Robert Guenin ...

Padre Pio, Italy's most-loved saint, faked his stigmata by pouring carbolic acid on his hands, according to a new book. The Other Christ: Padre Pio and 19th Century Italy, by the historian Sergio ...