The following letter from Julius Babao, who just came back from a trip to Italy with wife Tintin Bersola, says it all: My only knowledge of Padre Pio at that time were from pictures that I have seen ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: We refeature this story ahead of the papal visit March 17. More information about the trip here. Friar. Stigmatist. Mystic. Saint. All of these words describe Padre Pio — St. Pio of ...

Just now at 3:17 a.m., I finished reading the last page of an extraordinary book. Entitled Prophet of the People – A Biography of Padre Pio by Dorothy M. Gaudiose, it is but one of the many writings ...

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 ...

Children in South Sudan, Burma, and Lebanon have joined a worldwide initiative to get one million kids to pray the rosary this year on Oct. 18. “One million children praying the rosary” is a prayer ...

An unprecedented crowd in the history of the Filipino Church. During the three weeks of pilgrimage, the relic crossed the country, stopping at Santo Tomas and in the cities of Manila, Cebu, Davao and ...

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