Short biography of Saint Pio

EWTN  library on  Padre Pio

Padre Pio, was a Roman Catholic priest, of the Capuchin order  from San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, He was blessed by God in many wonderful and mysterious ways. The most dramatic was the stigmata, which he bore the wounds of Christ for fifty years!

Among his other gifts were  bilocation, prophecy, conversion, reading of souls, and miraculous cures. People are still being cured through his intercession in ways that cannot be explained by medicine or science.



Bonr on  May 25th  1887  in Pietrelcina, Benevento, Italy of Grazio "Orazio" Mario Forgione (1860-1946) and Maria Giuseppa de Nunzio Forgione (1859-1929).