Padre Pio’s gloved hands reach out, inviting passersby to touch them. Schmalz hopes that, when they do, ... who has a conch — which is the symbol of pilgrims — and then before your eyes, ...

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VATICAN CITY -- The body of Italy's beloved saint Padre Pio went on display last Thursday (April 24) at his shrine in southern Italy; over the coming months, more than 1 million people are expected to ...

Abel Ferrara says casting Shia LaBeouf as Padre Pio, the Italian monk who gained rock-star status among the Catholic faithful, coincided with a point in the actor’s life “where he connected ...

St. Padre Pio was a Capuchin friar best known for possessing the Stigmata, or wounds of Jesus Christ. He died in Foggia, Italy, in 1968 and was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2002.

"Padre Pio keeps that hope alive," he said. He said that a time when Filipinos suffer from inflation, poverty and extrajudicial killings, "they want a meaningful symbol to offset what is happening to ...

Padre Pio's body had been buried in a crypt at Santa Maria delle Grazie church in San Giovanni Rotondo, beside the friary where he had lived for most of his 81 years. It was exhumed during a ...

Shia LaBeouf was in a reverential frame of mind at the first public screening of Abel Ferrara's 'Padre Pio' at the Venice Film Festival, as befits a film about a monk in a Capuchin monastery.

Ferrara, who explored Pio’s life in a 2015 documentary Searching for Padre Pio, scripted the film with Maurizio Braucci (Martin Eden), and it will follow Padre Pio’s status as a symbol of hope for the ...