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Pope John Paul II yesterday made a saint of Padre Pio, the Italian monk whose body was said to have mimicked Christ’s bleeding wounds. Hundreds of thousands of people braved a hot day to throng St.

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 ...

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 ...