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Originally posted by PM_Mama00
Is Pio Laghi the one who Italians (or whoever) call Padre Pio? We have a picture or statue of him in our house but I never really asked my mom about him.
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Padre Pio (Saint Pio of Pietrelcina), a humble Capuchin priest from San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, was blessed by God in many wonderful and mysterious ways. The most dramatic was the stigmata. Padre Pio bore the wounds of Christ for fifty years.
More info: http://www.padrepio.com/ and of the stigmata: http://www.padrepio.com/app2.html
<-- baptized but not a practicing Roman Catholic.
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