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 ...

Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, the president of ACN, said that the 2021 rosary campaign seeks to encourage children to pray “hand in hand with Our Lady and under the protection of Saint Joseph.” Children ...

Manila (AsiaNews / CBCP) - During the historic pilgrimage to the Philippines of the incorrupt relic of the heart of Padre Pio (6-26 October), five million Catholic devotees rushed to venerate the ...

‘Kung sugatan po ang buhay natin, sugatan din ang bayan natin,’ says Bishop Broderick Pabillo as Saint Padre Pio's heart relic visits the Manila Cathedral MANILA, Philippines – Manila Auxiliary Bishop ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. Thousands flocked to the Manila Cathedral and the University of Sto. Tomas earlier this week to visit the first class ...

SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday traveled to southern Italy to honor a hugely popular Italian saint, Padre Pio, praying silently before a glass display case holding the ...

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 ...

“Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer,” said the Capuchin friar, St. Padre Pio. Indeed, we often burden ourselves with thoughts about our everyday ...